Quotes About Expansion

While Bollywood still remains my priority, I always wanted to do regional cinema. There are so many people who don't know Hindi, so I decided to do regional films wherein even those who don't know me can see my work.

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.

I would love to branch out a little bit and... do a Judd Apatow type of movie. It just looks like it's so much fun.

How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land and bodies is one of the plant world's greatest success stories. I say

Unfortunately, stupidity, like rust and weeds and lies and mould, tends to spread.

Never too late for vocabulary building," he said.

poetry distils event, and prose expands on it.

Imagine fish swimming in a shallow pond, just below the lily pads, thinking that their "universe" is only two-dimensional. Our three-dimensional world may be beyond their ken. But there is a way in which they can detect the presence of the third dimension. If it rains, they can clearly see the shadows of ripples traveling along the surface of the pond. Similarly, we cannot see the fifth dimension, but ripples in the fifth dimension appear to us as light.

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. —CARL SAGAN

If we are right, big bangs are taking place even as you read this sentence.

Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.

If each of them creates another thousand robots, then we have a million. Then a billion. Then a trillion. In just a few generations, we can have an expanding sphere containing quadrillions of these devices, which scientists call von Neumann machines.

If the universe is dense enough, then there is enough matter and gravity to attract the distant galaxies and reverse the expansion, so that the Big Crunch becomes a realistic possibility. If the universe lacks sufficient mass, then there is not enough gravity to reverse the expansion and the universe goes into a Big Freeze. The critical density separating these two scenarios is roughly six hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

So in addition to the Big Freeze and Big Crunch, a third alternative began to emerge from the data, the Big Rip, which is like the Big Freeze on steroids. It is a vastly accelerated time frame for the life cycle of the universe.

Small minds don't grow, no matter how long you water them.

Going over them, he felt the joy of having acquired yet another piece of the world, of having taken his imaginary scalpel and snipped yet another strip off the infinite canvas of the universe.

I [author] was beginning to understand...the clash of cartographies. When the adventurer John Lederer had rambled down the Great Indian Trading Path in 1670...he was not just sight-seeing. Working under the auspices of Virginia's governor, Lederer was at the vanguard of a systematic effort to appropriate land--an effort in which maps often played as big a road as guns.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.

Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good.

Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.