"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man."
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"There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world."
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe."
"Send forth a tiny ripple of hope."
"All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous."
"Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition"
"Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject."
"The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."
"What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"
"Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light."
"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
"Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution"
"We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better."
"I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious."
"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."
"God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion."
"We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one."
"Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority."
"The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression."