Autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics are not the crowning achievements of our age. These are the warm up acts.   

Flowers, the reproductive organs of angiosperms, were a novel structure that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. 

Edward Frenkel, who is one of the leading mathematical physicists in the world, makes math look sexy. 

Why was it that when Galileo viewed Venus and Jupiter with the naked eye, Venus, the brighter planet, appeared larger, but when viewed through a telescope, Jupiter appeared larger?

Nearly 50 percent of American adults are single. And many of them are happily single. 

"I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love." - Aziz Ansari (born on this date in 1983)

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington (born on this date in 1732)

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat." - Anaïs Nin (born on this date in 1903)

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Nicolaus Copernicus (born on this date in 1473)

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." - Yoko Ono (born on this date in 1933)

"Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life." - Mo Yan (born on this date in 1955)

"The older I get, the better I used to be." - John McEnroe (born on this date in 1959)

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people." - Frederick Douglass (born on this date in 1818)

"If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification." - William Shockley (born on this date in 1910)

Extraterrestrials might be thinking twice about visiting Earth, based on this view from space of the latest winter storm that is pummeling the southeastern United States. 

We will have a better and freer society when we have a greater understanding of math.

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln (born on this date in 1809)

Galileo's way of thinking was a much more revolutionary instrument for science than even the telescope. 

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (born on this date in 1564)