Globe Quotes

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Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. — Rumi
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall… — Jules Verne
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every… — Winston Churchill
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a… — Samuel Johnson
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right… — Adolf Hitler
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of… — Thomas Jefferson
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened… — Thomas Jefferson
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome… — James Thomas Fields
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland

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