Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay],… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe;… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
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