"That hemisphere of the moon which faces us……" — Camille Flammarion
"That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen."
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Camille Flammarion
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9 Quotes by Camille Flammarion
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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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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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