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- Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes… — Walter Russell
- In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as… — Nicolaus Copernicus
- The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by… — Aristotle
- At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that… — Vincent Van Gogh
- . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — 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… — Kim Stanley
- And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri