That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day? — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share
What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
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