Galileo Galilei Quotes
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.Galileo Galilei
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh -
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson -
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk -
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf -
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
Abby Wambach -
I talk too much.
Vin Diesel
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
Damon Lindelof -
Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
Warren Zevon -
Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
Quintilian -
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Bob Dylan -
A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
Neil Peart Rush
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Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.
Van Jones -
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis -
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
Francisco de Quevedo -
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.
Galileo Galilei