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Astronomy Quotes by Plato
- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
- For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things…
- It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world…
- Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
More Astronomy Quotes
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- For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon
- No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson
- Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel
- Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth