The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new;… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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