Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude… Adventure is my guidon. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of “discovering the longitude” became a synonym for attempting the impossible.” — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
“The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
“With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
“The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those… — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
“Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“the beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel’s ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
