We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar as angle exists in… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord… — David Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. — Felix Buxton Copy Share Image
Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans,… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image