"Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking……" — Camille Flammarion
"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, touched it with the tip of his pen!"
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Camille Flammarion
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9 Quotes by Camille Flammarion
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have…
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Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have…
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent…
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What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
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The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of…
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The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.
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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the…
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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole…
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