"The stars are the land-marks of the universe." — John Herschel
"The stars are the land-marks of the universe."
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John Herschel
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22 Quotes by John Herschel
John Herschel has 22 quotes on this site.
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty…
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More Land Quotes
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one of 3,805 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
— Chinua Achebe
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
— Abu Abbas
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
— Philip James Bailey
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
— Robert Ballard
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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
— Brigitte Bardot
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