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BEAUTY EXPLAINED & INSPIRED BY SCIENCE

by Martin Kornmesser, of The International Astronomical Union. “Solar System.”

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

by j_arred. “Lightning.”

“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

by Hellerhoff. “X-ray of human skull in frontal view with paranasal sinuses.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

-- Marie Curie

Courtesy of NASA. “Galileo probe, Io and Jupiter.”

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.”

-- Galileo

Courtesy of NASA. “Hubble space telescope in space.”

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.“

-- Edwin Powell Hubble

Courtesy of NASA. “Hubble space telescope in space.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

-- Carl Sagan

by Journalist First Class Preston Keres. Courtesy of the US Navy. “Radomes at the Cryptologic Operations Center.” Misawa, Japan.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Courtesy of NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI). “Wide View of Mystic Mountain.”

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

-- Ray Bradbury

by texasfeel. “Nailed.”

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

-- Abraham H. Maslow, “Toward a Psychology of Being.”

by Peter Morgan. “Fallen Apples.”

“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”

-- Bernard M. Baruch

Metastatic Melanoma Cells.

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by Gerit Linneweber. “Insect gut cells.”

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IMAGE CREDITS:

Image: by Martin Kornmesser, of The International Astronomical Union. “Solar System.”
Image: by j_arred. “Lightning.”
Image: by Hellerhoff. “X-ray of human skull in frontal view with paranasal sinuses.”
Image: Courtesy of NASA. “Galileo probe, Io and Jupiter.”
Image: Courtesy of NASA. “Hubble space telescope in space.”
Image: by Judy Schmidt. Courtesy of NASA & ESA. “Hubble Checks out a Home for Old Stars.”
Image: by Journalist First Class Preston Keres. Courtesy of the US Navy. “Radomes at the Cryptologic Operations Center.” Misawa, Japan.
Image: Courtesy of NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI). “Wide View of Mystic Mountain.”
Image: by texasfeel. “Nailed.”
Image: by Peter Morgan. “Fallen Apples.”
Image: by Julio C. Valencia. “Metastatic Melanoma Cells.”
Image: by Gerit Linneweber. “Insect gut cells.”
Image: by BN App - Download now!
Image: by Widicus Bill Smith. “Graphyne molecular model / graphene bilayer photon absorption.”