Probe Quotes
66 quotes by 63 authors
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The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,…
— Brian Greene
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One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those…
— Jon Meacham
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Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear…
— Billy Collins
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is…
— Thomas Pynchon
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With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to…
— Clive Barker
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
— Henry Miller
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I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the…
— C.S. Lewis
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You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared…
— Eoin Colfer
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
— Milan Kundera
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Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,†I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that…
— Darynda Jones
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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit…
— Lauren Oliver
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[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
— Jim Morrison
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Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of…
— Kevin Mitnick
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Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the…
— Seth Shostak
Who Wrote These Probe Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 66 Probe Quotes, led by these top contributors: