Terrestrial Quotes by John Playfair

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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
• The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth
• [To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair
• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur
• The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — 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… — 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… — James Hutton
• The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Unknown Author

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