Ptolemy Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.…
— Victor Hugo
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who…
— Christopher Columbus
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
— Albert Claude
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great…
— Gary Wolf
Who Wrote These Ptolemy Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Ptolemy Quotes as follows: