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Earth Quotes by Aristotle
- The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is…
- Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath…
- But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length…
- It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.
- Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
- Worms are the intestines of the earth.
- We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
- Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,…
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann