Terrestrial Quotes
76 quotes by 68 authors
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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
— Swami Paramananda
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
— Charles Lapworth
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of oÂne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured,…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole…
— James Hutton
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
— Horace-Benedict de Saussure
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life…
— Eduard Suess
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
— Al-Ghazali
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Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as…
— George Monbiot
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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
— Seth Shostak
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Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces…
— James A. Garfield
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When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade…
— Edgar Mitchell
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or…
— Sylvia Earle
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose…
— Leon Foucault
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The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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