Arcs Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere.…

— Pliny the Elder

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.

— Rumi

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

— Markus Zusak

“Earth’s Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making the Sun…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

— Leroy Chiao

“Earth’s Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun and the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would…

— C. V. Raman

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb…

— Max Heindel

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others…

— Christopher Columbus

The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course…

— Neil Armstrong

“For human beings, with our limited lives and limited means of travel, these vagaries of celestial alignment mean the majority of people on Earth…

— Tyler Nordgren