Terrestrial Globe Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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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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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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It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
— John Quincy Adams
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man…
— Jules Verne
Who Wrote These Terrestrial Globe Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Terrestrial Globe Quotes as follows: