“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher; a community of minds reaching back to antiquity, and forward to the stars.”Tagged: Science, Passing the Torch, Antiquity, Community of Minds, Generations
“Many of us suspect that all of this—all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe—is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end.”Tagged: Astronomy, galaxies, Stars, Universe
“Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.”Tagged: Science, Frontier, Knowledge, Ignorance, Shame
“The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.”Tagged: Evolution, gravity, Kinship, Spiritual
“If life has a sanctuary, it's here in the nucleus, which contains our DNA—the ancient scripture of our genetic code. And it's written in a language that all life can read.”Tagged: Nucleus, DNA, Life
“Using nothing more than Newton's laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now our home galaxy—the Milky Way—will merge with our neighboring galaxy—Andromeda…Any life on the worlds of that far off future…would be treated to an amazing…”Tagged: Sir Isaac Newton, Astronomers, Milky Way, Andromeda
“The age and size of the cosmos are written in light. The nature of beauty and the substance of the stars, the laws of space and time they were there all along, but we never saw them until we devised a more powerful way of seeing.”Tagged: Cosmos, Nature, beauty, space and time
“There are more atoms in your eye than there are stars in all the galaxies in the known universe.”Tagged: Atoms, Eye, Stars, galaxies, Universe
“There are many kinds of stars. Some are bright like the Sun. Some are dim. The greatest stars are ten million times larger than the smallest ones. Some stars are old beyond imagining, more than ten billion years of age. Others are being born right now. When atoms fuse in the hearts of stars, they…”Tagged: Stars, Sun, Atoms, Clouds
“For thousands of generations we watched the stars as if our lives depended on it, because they did….[O]ur ancestors noticed that the motions of the stars across the nights of the year foretold changes on Earth that threatened or enhanced our chances for survival.”Tagged: Generations, Ancestors, Earth
“Congratulations. You're alive. There's an unbroken thread that stretches across more than three billion years that connects us to the first life that ever touched this world. Think of how tough, resourceful and lucky all of our countless ancestors must have been to survive long enough to pass on the…”Tagged: Congratulations, Resourceful, Survival, Ancestors
“Few animals larger than a hundred pounds survived the catastrophes of the late Cretaceous. The dust cloud brought night and cold to the surface for months. The dinosaurs froze and starved to death. But there were small creatures who took shelter in the Earth. And when they emerged they found that…”Tagged: Cretaceous, Mammals, Earth
“Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier....This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of…”Tagged: Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge, Frontier, Earth, Ocean
“I could be thousands of miles away, and yet, when you turn on whatever device is bringing my image and voice to you, I'm there. Instantaneously. How is that possible?....It all began in the mind of one person….This is the story of how we learned to make electrons do our bidding.”Tagged: Electrons, Digital Communication, Michael Faraday
“By burning coal, oil and gas, our civilization is exhaling carbon dioxide much faster than Earth can absorb it. So, CO2 is building up in the atmosphere. The planet is heating up.”Tagged: oil, coal, Gas, carbon dioxide, CO2
“Why is Venus scorching hot? It's because…the flow of energy is blocked by a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide….Venus is in the grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.”Tagged: Venus, carbon dioxide, Greenhouse Effect
“There seems to be a mysterious force in the universe, one that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale to push the cosmos apart….We call it ‘dark energy,’ but that name, like ‘dark matter,’ is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our…”Tagged: Universe, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, gravity, Cosmos
“These buildings were not designed to thrill or elevate or warm with their beauty. They are designed to dwarf the individual, to intimidate, to remind constantly that the state is all powerful and supreme, that the individual is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”Tagged: Fascism, Italy, Propaganda, Governmental Authority