Accounts Quote by George Iles Download Open image “Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.” — George Iles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Beam Focus Form Ice Lenses May Science Substance
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“After thousands of years, the ray-gun reached Earth. It fell from the sky like a meteor; it grew hot enough to glow, but it… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion. — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances? — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving, and transmuting… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles Copy Share Image
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest… — George Iles Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image