“Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.” ShouldMindHeartSoulCharacterStarsFriendsOughtAccountsAbsolutesSatisfiedMutualTemporaryIncentivesLove One AnotherPropheticHeart Mind And Soul Author:Margaret Fuller
“Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.” YearsMatterLightEarthScienceNightStarsSkyComfortableYears AgoAccountsMiracleReachingBurnedMisconceptionNight SkyGazingShatteringBurned OutDilbert Author:Scott Adams
“As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.” RealityHumanityStarsAccountsAbsolutesEverydaySeekingCeaseEveryday LifeUtilityPrescriptionsAbsolute Truth Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.” NeedsStarsSidesPovertyRolesAccountsFellowsStrategyWesternInternationalAidsArguingDebateTendenciesEconomistFeedbackOngoingGlobal Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood
“Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of money. Literally, ran out. And I couldn't make payroll. So I emptied all our accounts to make payroll. We were kinda like, "What do we do?" Then out of the blue, we were saved by Gucci. So it's always been like, you just gotta reach for the stars and hopefully the moon will catch you.” EndsStarsLike YouMoonAccountsBlueSavedHopefullyRanSequencePayrollGucci Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.” FirstsLongHas BeensLightEnergyStarsParentMillionsMinutesEventsWasteAccountsPatternsNuclearTinyOpeningBombsGutsAtomsLockedDecayBangsUraniumSupernovaNuclear WastePotassium Book:Weight Source: Weight
“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsLooksMeanLongLightSeemsScienceStarsDifficultTakenNiceSkyRedAccountsAstronomyDifficult ThingsCosmologyAway From YouDwarfsCalculatingLight Years Author:Mark Haddon
“An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.” Would BeScienceStarsStudyEvolutionAccountsOrganismsIgnoredLiving OrganismsStellarSpectroscopy Author:John B. S. Haldane
“The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.” ScienceFatherStarsWaterEffortStudyWeaponsAccountsMathematicsDisappointmentMathAidsBillionsGhostMathematicalMoleculesMath And ScienceEludeDrop Of WaterGreat MathMath Is LikeStudying Mathematics Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.” IfsKnowsMenMindIdeasPhilosophyAbleFormSuccessScienceUniverseStarsSpaceNumbersSucceedCreatingAccountsInfiniteEnormousFantasticAtomsConcreteTranslateCompositionMachineryOutlinesImmensitySmallnessAstounded Author:Guglielmo Marconi
“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.” IfsKnowsWayShouldYearsMayDoeMadeShowsLightRememberScienceStarsWaitingHalfMillionsTheoryYears AgoAccountsAbsolutesFiftyGet AwaySarcasticGoing AwayZeroMinistryTemperatureProposeRocketsSteersComplacentLight Years Author:Robert Frost
“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.” WayHumansOrderThreeStarsNumbersBrainMillionsRichFourAccountsAddExtraordinaryBillionsCellsComplexityPoundsInner LifeMagnitudeLiverHuman BrainNeuronsMilky Way Author:Gerald Fischbach
“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.” YearsMadeAgeScienceNightNextStarsInterestTreeAccountsExcitedAstronomyNineObservationExcitementMapsArticlesYardsHarvardNational Geographic Author:Dudley R. Herschbach
“[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.” ImportantCharacterScienceLiteratureStarsWrittenTreeRocksAccountsImportanceAstronomyUtilitarian Author:James A. Garfield