“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something.” LawChangeHistoryPerspectivePhotographyEvidencePictures Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“a constellation is formed by points of light that are not connected to each other by anything other than the observer” PhilosophyStarsDistancePatternsMathAstronomyGeometry Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller.” RelationshipsHealingFamilyForgivenessAngerRevengeParenthoodApology Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“Dear Rick, I've never thought math was a miracle. The things we study simply are. They were the rules of the universe before we were here to understand them. They operate the world behind the curtain, whether we look behind it or not. The rules are already there. Music is a miracle. It adds something to the world that didn't have to be here. Language is a miracle. Every sentence ever spoken and every song ever sung is a new invention. Not only do they add something new to the world, they transmit thoughts and emotions that would otherwise be locked within one person. I hear a song and feel something a composer felt 200 years ago. I read your letter and hear your voice saying the words. I feel you in the room with me. That's the miracle.” UniverseLanguageMusicMathematicsMathMiraclesSongs Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“An infinitesimal fraction of the sun’s energy is responsible for all the abundance of our planet. A good thing we can’t see the torrent of waste, the enormity of what’s lost. Imagine pouring a jug of milk down the drain. The droplets of leftover milk in the sink? That’s what we live off.” EarthScienceEnergySpacePhysicsMilkSolar EnergySolar PowerThe Sun Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“Light takes eight minutes to travel from the sun to Earth, so if you look at it one way there’s a grace period between when the star stops burning and when the light runs out. But if you look at the first moment without light as the first possible information heralding the end of the star, there’s no time in between the star’s collapse and the light running out. The eight minutes carry the moment of collapse on their backs.” LightSpaceSunTravelMathPhysicsTime TravelApocalypseOuter SpaceSolar System Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance
“A partnership is about who takes out the garbage. The two might take turns dumping out the can. One might dump it out every time. It doesn’t work if you both wait for the other to do it. If you can manage that problem, you can figure out the rest.” FamilyMarriageAdviceEverydayPartnersPartnershipCouplesChores Book:Singer Distance Source: Singer Distance