Spherical Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.… — Alan Watts
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus
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
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. — Fritz Zwicky
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Ferdinand Columbus
Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms,… — Walter Russell
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. — Aristotle
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent… — Vincent Van Gogh
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The… — Kim Stanley
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which… — Dante Alighieri
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves. — Christiaan Huygens
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those… — Saint Augustine
We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as… — Henry Moseley
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. — Nicolaus Copernicus
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin

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