Heavenly Bodies Quotes
30 Heavenly Bodies quotes by 23 unique authors
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle…
— Galileo Galilei
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our…
— Charles Lyell
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity…
— James Hutton
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,…
— Florence Nightingale
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
— Seneca the Younger
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In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names…
— William Herschel
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They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly…
— Jonathan Swift
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The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage…
— Henry M. Morris
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all…
— Joseph Campbell
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The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles.
— Swami Vivekananda
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My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you…
— David Berg
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Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures now, think how…
— David Berg
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Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify…
— David Berg
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Our Heavenly bodies will be able to dematerialise, pass from dimension to dimension, walk right through walls and locked doors as Jesus did, appear and…
— David Berg
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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered…
— Plato
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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
— Isaac Newton
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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from…
— Italo Calvino
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My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
— Italo Calvino
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But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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