Courage Quote by Gabriel F.W. Koch

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?'…

— Bill Bryson

“People talk of the wrench of parting, and that, he felt, was exactly what it was. Take a metal object off a magnet and…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It’s always described as melting, and I finally understood why. I thought my body was turning to liquid. I could feel my bones giving…

— S. Walden

“The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's…

— Lauren Beukes

“A surface separates inside from out and belongs no less to one than the other.”

— Don DeLillo

“Around the same time Democritus (ca 460 BC–ca. 370 BC), from an Ionian colony in northern Greece, pondered what happened when you break or…

— Stephen Hawking

“Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“For you to be here now, trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you.”

— Bill Bryson

“Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo