Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

American Scientist

Leo Tolstoy

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Russian Novelist

Napoleon Hill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

American Author

Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

American President

George Santayana

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Spanish Philosopher

Florence Nightingale

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

English Activist

George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

British Author

T. S. Eliot

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

American Poet

Tryon Edwards

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

American Theologian

Rudolf Arnheim

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

German Artist

Stresses the tangible aspect; not used for abstract concepts.

Physical Presence

Often used when the specific nature of the thing is unknown or irrelevant.

Visual Identification

Highlights the personal significance or emotional importance of a goal.

Personal Ambition

Clarifies that it's not just a goal, but a driving force for actions.

Motivation Clarification

Indicates the act of showing disagreement or disapproval.

Expression of Disapproval

Can be a polite way to express a differing opinion or refusal.

Polite Contradiction

Emphasizes function in a sentence; object receives the action of the verb.

Grammatical Role

Helps distinguish the object as the receiver, not the doer, of the action.

Object vs. Subject

In programming, denotes a data structure with properties and methods.

Code and Data

Relates to a style of programming based on objects.

Object-Orientation

 Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende,

The genius of Marie...

 is much different than the physics of the macroscopic objects you see around you all the time. The everyday world you know and love behaves according to the laws of classical mechanics. But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum mechanics.

What can Schrödinger's...

 with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Occasionally, people pass by the fire, carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall.

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence, so we create a spiral of sound. And then the object gets caught like in the eye of a storm? Yeah, in the eye of the storm. Exactly. So this is pretty much on the world record.

How To Levitate PIPE The...

 of the universe. Nestled within the far flung Kuiper belt the dwarf planet is believed to be one of the countless celestial objects left over from the formation of the solar system. While it is one of the Kuiper belts largest bodies,

Pluto 101 PIPE National...

 Familiar, everyday objects have many, many times more particles than this. The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate

What is entropy? - Jeff...

 because they're neither strong nor far-reaching enough to influence anything outside of our skulls. Physics also tells us that the only forces that can influence objects from afar are magnetic and gravitational.

Is telekinesis real? -...

 my fashion is very important to empower women and the kind of woman that I project is is a woman that self-confident and who is not an object and who doesn't have to hide behind her clothes

My life as an outsider PIPE...

 These two characteristics, with a few others, make them quasars. At the same time, the objects I study are producing some of the most powerful particle streams ever observed.