Maryam Mirzakhani Quotes

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Topologists are not concerned with angles and lengths, which are clearly altered by stretching the rubber sheet, but they do care about more fundamental properties.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.