Curved Quotes
96 quotes by 80 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
— Hideki Yukawa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most straight seems curved.
— Laozi
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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
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All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.
— Walter Russell
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
— Michael Faraday
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Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
— Propertius
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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
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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
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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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