Surface Quotes

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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or… — Michael Faraday
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my… — Mehmet Oz
How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness. It doesn't… — Rajneesh
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or… — Eckhart Tolle
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy -… — Rajneesh
Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling apart in different… — Rajneesh
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then… — Ivan Pavlov
On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff, and I'm sensitive to those… — Emily Ratajkowski
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on… — Nathan Farragut Twining
I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense… — Steve Squyres
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts,… — Nicolas Steno

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