Specks Quotes

110 quotes by 105 authors

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest… — Rudolf Arnheim
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think… — George W. Bush
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this… — Mae Jemison
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
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
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've… — Harriet Doerr
In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it,… — Waldemar Kaempffert
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so… — Robert Aris Willmott
Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my… — Naoki Higashida
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take… — Grover Norquist
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… — Joseph Conrad
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so… — Stanislaw Lem
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A… — Byron Katie
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called… — James A. Michener
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm… — Ernst Haeckel
Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly… — Norton Juster
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.… — Ken Wilber

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