Curved Quotes

96 quotes by 80 authors

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at… — Mark Twain
Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. — Hideki Yukawa
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following… — Susane Colasanti
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf — Annie Dillard
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue… — Ulf Merbold
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to… — Laurence J. Peter
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested… — Ellsworth Kelly
The most straight seems curved. — Laozi
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends… — Harold Brodkey
All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral. — Walter Russell
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. — Michael Faraday
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. — Propertius
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky… — Albert Einstein
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line,… — Bill Gaede

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