Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
We can explain the wan blueness of this little world because we know it well. Whether an alien scientist newly arrived at the outskirts of our solar system could reliably …
Quote for Today: William H. Gass
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the …
Quote for Today: Christopher Moore
How do you know, when you think blue— when you say blue— that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else? You cannot get a grip on blue. Blue is …
Prussian Blue and Early Photography: Following Synchronicity From Diesbach to Anna Atkins
Scientific discovery and artistic innovation often occur together in unpredictable ways. How is this relationship shaped by accident and synchronicity? During the early 1700s, the color maker Diesbach was attempting …
Quote for Today: Philip C. Plait
If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, “It’s because of quantum effects involving …
Quote for Today: Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet …
Quote for Today: Shel Silverstein
Masks She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And …