On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his vision.
If there is one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives. So
Silbury Hill in Wiltshire
Don't ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven't got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don't do it.
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between.
The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.
It’s easy to make bricks, but making houses requires far more than throwing a pile of bricks in the air.
Cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in
The Super Constellations took three days to reach London [from Australia] and lacked the power or range to dodge most storms. When monsoons or cyclones were encountered, the pilots had no choice but t...
It is curious to reflect that we have computers that can effortlessly compute pi to 5,000 places and yet cannot be made to understand that there is a difference between time flies like an arrow and fr...
Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.
It is a natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity – in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of t...
It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: ‘I don’t intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God....
I didn’t ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times. Same thing, he said. It’s not the same thing at all. You can’t be this stupid. Two
When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it’s time to watch your step.
The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life.
She had, I realized, Retail Tourette’s Syndrome, a compulsion to blurt advice. There was nothing she could do about it.
There is a certain irony in the fact that Britain gave the world nearly all its most important geological names—Devonian, Cambrian, Silurian, Ordovician—but that the one epoch that everybody knows abo...
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.
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