Quote by Caleb Scharf

“there are a million things we survive every day without recognizing we were ever at risk. Then we have a close call, and we…

— Aron Ralston

“WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all knowledge is…

— Gregory Bergman

The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the…

— John Lachs

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

— Nikola Tesla

“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!”

— H. P. Lovecraft

“How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of…

— Julie Orringer

All kinds of physical considerations become senseless when we try to apply them to distances smaller than 10 -13 centimeter.

— George Gamow

“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we’re lucky, we have a moment to…

— Ally Condie

“The length of all DNA in your body's cells is 74 billion kilometers (or 193,000 times the distance from the earth to the moon).”

— Caleb Scharf

“Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses…

— Charles Lindbergh

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

— Charles Caleb Colton