"The universe is so immense that it appears……" — Camille Flammarion
"The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history."
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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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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 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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
— Annie Besant
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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