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The polar ring galaxy may actually be two galaxies that are gravitationally pulled together. When this happens, an unusual ring of gas and stars rotate around the poles of what […]
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.” -Galileo
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far […]
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” – Carl Sagan
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past.”– Johnny Cash
“They call a man graceful because he hits a little ball with a certain swing. My father hammered piles on a railroad out of Martinez for 10 cents an hour […]
“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.” – Sir Arthur Helps
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine, French historian
“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” – William Carlos Williams
“Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.” – Arthur Koestler
“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.” – Patricia […]
“Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he is willing to make gods by dozens.” — Michel de Montaigne
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss
“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.” – Ralph Ellison
“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” – George Harrison
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” – Wayne Gretzky. Good game, Canada.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell
“I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.” – Aziz Ansari (born on this date in 1983)
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” – George Washington (born on this date in 1732)
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” – Anaïs Nin (born on this date in 1903)
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Nicolaus Copernicus (born on this date in 1473)
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
– Yoko Ono (born on this date in 1933)
“Possibly because I’ve lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.” – Mo Yan (born on this date in 1955)
“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – John McEnroe (born on this date in 1959)
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.” – Frederick Douglass (born on this date in 1818)
“If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.” – William Shockley (born on this date in 1910)