Maybe what really matters is not whether a nuclear weapon really works but whether we believe it does.
Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?
Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back
The presence of a few prominent female figures and seemingly favorable statistics do not tell the whole story.
A view had gained ground among the reform-minded in Iran that a literate public was the key to a prosperous country, and that learning and the printed word could bring about progress.
Negin Nabavi in The Birth of Newspaper Culture in Nineteenth-Century Iran
