Earth Quote by Ken Jennings

Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the…

— Carl Sagan

“What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?" "I am a geographer," said the old gentleman. "What is a…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of…

— Lucio Russo

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and…

— Rick Famuyiwa

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It…

— Steve Jobs

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly…

— Tom Turner

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

— James Henry Breasted

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

— Stephen King

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball