Martin Rees

The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.

British Scientist

Deborah Harkness

The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.

American Novelist

Karl Marx

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

German Philosopher

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Roman Statesman

Thomas Day

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

British Author

Louis Oosthuizen

I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.

South African Athlete

Tadao Ando

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Japanese Architect

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

Polish Director

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

French Philosopher

Sophocles

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Greek Poet

Inscribing usually refers to permanently marking an object, not easily erased.

Physical Permanence

'Inscribe' suggests the text or symbol will be seen and read by others.

Visibility

Inscribing a book adds a personal touch and is often used when gifting books.

Personal Touch

Inscribed dedications in books often become a part of its history and sentimental value.

Part of History

In geometry, 'inscribe' is a precise term involving perfect contact between shapes.

Mathematical Precision

Used in technical fields to describe fitting one part within another accurately.

Engineering Design

Inscribe in a legal context means officially adding information to a formal record.

Official Records

Legal inscriptions often have deadlines and need timely updating or registration.

Time-Sensitive

 inscribed in that empty space. They found out that they had been lucky because they had not begun to dig under Caltrans territoy. Caltrans is a state agency that governs the freeway, so it would have been very difficult to negotiate with them. They were lucky, they said, because they began to dig under an arm of the freeway

Teddy Cruz: How...

 space and it's kind of just defined by line of buildings on either side it's a space where citizens can voice their discontent and show their power it's a place where pivotal moments in American history have taken place and they're inscribed in there forever

A giant bubble for...

 The prize itself includes a gold medal inscribed with the Latin words, "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium," or "For the peace and brotherhood of men," as well as a diploma and a large cash prize. Recently, it's been 8 million Swedish kronor,

How does the Nobel Peace...

 center of a symbolic representation of the universe and from the base of its tower the Buddha's eyes gaze in each direction the stupids surrounded by a circuit of prayer wheels inscribed with Buddhist mantras pilgrims circle the complex

180° Kathmandu, City of...

 has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's raised the same questions we debate Is it art? Is it vandalism? In the 1st century BCE, Romans regularly inscribed messages on public walls, while oceans away,

Is graffiti art? Or...

 is not an eavesdropper, and has not polluted the water. But did Ani really live such a perfect life? Not quite, but that's where the heart scarab amulet comes in. It's inscribed with the words, "Do not stand as a witness against me,"

The Egyptian Book of the...

 pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system

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 Throughout the history of mankind, three little words have sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the Agora, and seekers to the "Who am I?" From the ancient Greek aphorism inscribed on the Temple of Apollo,

Who am I? A philosophical...

 your gravesite will be a tombstone and inscribed on that tombstone it will say here lies a distinguished engineer who invented velcro but what that tombstone should have said in an alternative lifetime

Why you will fail to...

 so these days a grave that's my grandmother's would usually be inscribed by sandblasting the text onto the stone through a rubberized laser-cut stencil