Adam Weishaupt
Adam Weishaupt

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Anatoli Boukreev
Anatoli Boukreev

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Andrea M. Ghez
Andrea M. Ghez

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

Aunjanue Ellis
Aunjanue Ellis

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

Cheo Hodari Coker
Cheo Hodari Coker

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.