Communication Quote by Dava Sobel

“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing… No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his…

— Dava Sobel

“With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on…

— Dava Sobel

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority,…

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“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”

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“Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel”

— Dava Sobel

“the beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel’s ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery…

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“Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled…

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“And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that…

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And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with…

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“As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited…

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“To have done work which is widely recognized, to have gained the sincere esteem of many and the real love of even a few,…

— Dava Sobel

“In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of “discovering the longitude” became a synonym for attempting the impossible.”

— Dava Sobel