"Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand……" — R. Buckminster Fuller

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an… — James Jeans
• Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation… — Immanuel Kant
• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly… — Augustus De Morgan
• As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon… — Deke Slayton
• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great… — R. Buckminster Fuller
• The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an… — Richard Preston
• The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers,… — Heinrich Heine
• Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments,… — Unknown Author
• The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer… — Arthur Eddington
• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is… — George Ellery Hale

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