“The simplest answer is that we don't know. In fact, it remains one of the biggest unanswered problems of modern physics.”— Don Lincoln, cnn.com
“It’s not easy to bring a new idea into existence. It’s not easy even to stand up and talk about why things need to change. I know that from my own experience as a young adolescent searching for my own voice. It’s a long and difficult process, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s never finished. At…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“i hope my memory makes the teeth grit, makes the salt of your skin slide down razors. i hope i stain.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a posi…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We de…”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.”— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book'”— Karl Pilkington, goodreads.com
“When I hear news of a hitchhiker struck by lightning yet living, or a child lifting a two-ton sedan to free his father pinned underneath, or a camper fighting off a grizzly with her bare hands until someone, a hunter perhaps, can shoot it dead, my thoughts turn to black people— the hysterical streng…”— Nicole Sealey, narrativemagazine.com
“The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.”— Adam Savage, techland.time.com
“What I call the void is where nothing exists. It is about things outside man's knowledge. Of course the void does not exist. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fi…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible within it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The limits of man's observation lie within very narrow boundaries, and it would be arrogance to suppose that the reach of man's power is to form the limits of the natural world. The universe offers daily proof of the existence of power of which we know nothing, but whose mighty agency nevertheless m…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“Almost all thinking men who have studied the laws which govern the animate and the inanimate world around us, agree that the belief in the existence of one Supreme Creator, possessed of infinite wisdom and power, is open to far less difficulties than the supposition of the absence of any cause, or o…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com