Terrestrial Quotes

76 quotes by 68 authors

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success. — Seth Shostak
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
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
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
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
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
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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