#verse

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#case #either #i #i think #idea

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#enough #get #here #i #lived

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#creative #else #exist #expression #human

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#country #few #few things #giant #i

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting -- bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest -- the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies. ↗

— Brian Greene

#science #the-universe #age

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#darwin #direction #idea #makes #natural

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american men #ask #country #defend #fight

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#american #between #business #business community #commerce

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. ↗

— Paul Engle

#bled #delight #drip #grief #head