Celestial Quotes

220 quotes by 174 authors

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished… — Walt Whitman
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new… — Barbara Mertz
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of… — Percival Lowell
Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very… — Marion G. Romney
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound… — Alfred de Musset
On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built. — Hafez
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is… — Percival Lowell
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts… — Gary Saul Morson
Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. — John Milton
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities,… — Edward Robert Harrison
How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder… — Guy Murchie
Talk about celestial bodies. — Jackson Browne
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one… — Hope Mirrlees
To climb the highest peaks, to travel throughâ€¦ celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth… — Auguste Piccard

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