Randall Munroe

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

— Randall Munroe

“The X-Plane author compared piloting Martian aircraft to flying a supersonic ocean liner.”

— Randall Munroe

“(not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). To”

— Randall Munroe

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

— Randall Munroe

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

— Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

— Randall Munroe

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

— Randall Munroe

“A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.”

— Randall Munroe

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

— Randall Munroe

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

— Randall Munroe

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so…

— Randall Munroe

A lot of times, the idea of a comic will be, 'Wouldn't it be cool if you...' But instead of doing it,…

— Randall Munroe

“Sure, we seem like we’ve taken over the planet, but if I had to bet on which one of us would still…

— Randall Munroe

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things…

— Randall Munroe

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

— Randall Munroe

I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.

— Randall Munroe

“If humans escape the solar system and outlive the Sun, our descendants may someday live on one of these planets. Atoms from…

— Randall Munroe

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure…

— Randall Munroe

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is…

— Randall Munroe

“For starters, would your soul mate even still be alive? A hundred billion or so humans have ever lived, but only seven…

— Randall Munroe

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the…

— Randall Munroe

It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could…

— Randall Munroe

There are definitely times - and I think this is pretty common among cartoonists - where you spend an entire day trying…

— Randall Munroe

“The interactive map, available online at welikia.org, is a fantastic snapshot of a different New York. In 1609, the island of Manhattan…

— Randall Munroe

“A 1-watt laser is an extremely dangerous thing. It’s not just powerful enough to blind you—it’s capable of burning skin and setting…

— Randall Munroe

“Throwing is hard.1 In order to deliver a baseball to a batter, a pitcher has to release the ball at exactly the…

— Randall Munroe

“Q. How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? —Myrlin Barber A. Surprisingly fast. First, a disclaimer. After…

— Randall Munroe

“We don’t know what astatine looks like, because, as Lowe put it, “that stuff just doesn’t want to exist.” It’s so radioactive…

— Randall Munroe

“Q. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? —Ellen McManis Let’s…

— Randall Munroe

“To see what Times Square looked like before a city was there, we turn to a remarkable project called Welikia, which grew…

— Randall Munroe

“While researching this answer, I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got…

— Randall Munroe

“The official record for the fastest manmade object is the Helios 2 probe, which reached about 70 km/s in a close swing…

— Randall Munroe

“If you eat a destroying angel, for the rest of the day you’ll feel fine. Later that night, or the next morning,…

— Randall Munroe

“Whatever happened to our dreams? The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could…

— Randall Munroe

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

— Randall Munroe

“I still don’t know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,”

— Randall Munroe

“Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources”

— Randall Munroe

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

— Randall Munroe

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

— Randall Munroe

“My house is full of traps.” Twitter would look like this:”

— Randall Munroe