What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an… — 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,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
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
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
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