Solid Earth Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In…
— Svante Arrhenius
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We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
— Thales
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We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term…
— Leonard Susskind
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Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on…
— Homer
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Most men will not swim before they are able to.†Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories,…
— Albert Camus
Who Wrote These Solid Earth Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Solid Earth Quotes as follows: