Would wheel square in shape if earth's box in shape?

“The village that voted the earth was flat doubtless modified its own behavior and its system of physics accordingly, but its vote did not…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the…

— Annalee Newitz

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere.…

— Pliny the Elder

“Once the solar parallax is known,' they told me, 'once the necessary Degrees are measur'd, and the size and weight and shape of the…

— Thomas Pynchon

“If you think about it, everyone is behind someone and in front of someone. The nature of the sphere, right? No one gets left…

— Deb Olin Unferth

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

— Ali Sina

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so…

— John Williams

“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth…

— Robert Harris

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

— Rudyard Kipling

Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…

— Anonymous

“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write,    To thank the God of nature, who conveyed    My soul to me, and with such care…

— Anonymous

Remember that your natural state is joy.

— Wayne Dyer

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap