David Nicholls

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

English Novelist

Sean Hepburn Ferrer

During her illness we received bags and bags of anything you can imagine, from get well cards to origami from Japan to medications. The mail lady used to come on a little moped - and she had to rent the mail truck from the town next door because she had to lug these bags to our door with thousands of cards we couldn't even open.

Ayelet Waldman

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.

Israeli Novelist

Conor McGregor

Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.

Irish Athlete

Harry Anderson

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

American Actor

Joy Mangano

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

American Inventor

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

American Scientist

Jon Cryer

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.

J. G. Ballard

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

British Author

Jimmi Simpson

I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

Origami is an important part of Japanese culture and often symbolizes peace and creativity.

Cultural Origin

Cranes, flowers, and dragons are popular origami creations, each with its own cultural significance.

Common Shapes

Origami can range from simple designs suitable for beginners to complex patterns that challenge experts.

Skill Levels

 literally burns a hole in the upper atmosphere. The heat shield in the front of our Rover gets to about the surface temperature of the Sun 1600 degrees centigrade. At this point we're going to start what I like to call reverse origami. We're going to pull up a parachute, this is a supersonic parachute and that's going to start changing our angle of attack from being directly in

The Curious Life of a...

 You get a high-level description of the computer program, a high-level description of the origami. You can compile it to molecules, send it to a synthesizer, and it actually works. And it turns out that a company has made a nice program that's much better than my code, which was kind of ugly, and will allow us to do this in a nice, visual, computer-aided design way.

Paul Rothemund: The...

 seconds but also like what has been the impact of getting full scopes out in the world so full scope is a microscope it's origami microscope you put together you do microscopy but the goal is to do it anywhere we wrote a paper and then we moved on to other stuff and we realize nothing changed in the world actually you know you realize when you write a

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 It is protected by a five-layer metalized plastic sunshade as large as a tennis court. This telescope is so large that it could not fit into the rocket without being folded up like origami. It's an incredible engineering accomplishment to be able to even conceive and build this telescope. So we built it.

How the James Webb Space...

 And I was protecting the project from it, I realized. I was protecting it -- I didn't want this special, little group of photographs to get sullied in some way. So what I did, I took all those emails, and I put them together into something called Angrigami, which was an origami template

Ze Frank's web playroom

 And we had two types of We had the people who built it, and the people who did not build it, and just looked at it as external observers. And what we found was that the builders thought that these were beautiful pieces of origami -- and they were willing to pay five times more for them

What makes us feel good...

 folding only hundreds of folds this too is origami and this shows where we've gone in the modern world naturalism detail you can get horns antlers even if you look close cloven hooves and it

Folding way-new origami...

 This is an origami figure -- one sheet, no cuts, folding only, hundreds of folds. This, too, is origami, and this shows where we've gone in the modern world. Naturalism. Detail.

The math and magic of...

 has applications from the vastness of space to the microscopic world of our cells. Using principles of origami, medical engineers have re-imagined the traditional stent graft,

The satisfying math of...

 Are you seriously believing any of this? I don't do any of these things. I hate yoga, and I have no idea how to fold an origami crane. The truth is that for me,