Fixed Stars Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,…
— Robert Bunsen
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for…
— Otto Weininger
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The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It…
— Galileo Galilei
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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;…
— Heinrich Heine
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have…
— Galileo Galilei
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in…
— Ann Rinaldi
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
— Janet Fitch
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I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake…
— Joseph Conrad
Who Wrote These Fixed Stars Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Fixed Stars Quotes as follows: