Sonlight Science Quotes & Sayings

In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain. — Tim Radford

Divine purpose, divine fulfilment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He has the merit - if it is one - of saying exactly what he means. — E. M. Forster

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. — Charles Bowden

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda

We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder ... whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" ... The very ideal that holds a democracy together
the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good
is going quickly by the wayside. — John Rosemond

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected. — J.G. Holland

You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are
worth while but it hurts — Julio Cortazar

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. — John J. McCloy

Just because 50,000 people on the Internet know me, I'm not patting myself on the back at the end of the night. — Theophilus London

THE MORE I SEE OF MEN, THE BETTER I LIKE MY DOG." ~ Frederick the Great — Frederick The Great

I wish,' said Lymond, 'it would try a major key sometimes.'

'Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature. — Dorothy Dunnett

Then, walking across the room, hips swaying, blond hair flowing as if in a shampoo commercial, came Joe's date. Tall. Skinny. Big boobs despite the skinniness, their cantaloupe-like roundness announcing them as store-bought — Kristan Higgins