"May we attribute to the color of the……" — Camille Flammarion
"May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?"
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Camille Flammarion
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9 Quotes by Camille Flammarion
Camille Flammarion has 9 quotes on this site.
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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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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
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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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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by…
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of…
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who…
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut…
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