Globes Quotes
393 quotes by 326 authors
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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.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which…
— Giordano Bruno
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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
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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
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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
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A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients…
— William Gilbert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are…
— Kenneth Tynan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the…
— Doris Lessing
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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
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