"Is the mean temperature of the ground in……" — Svante Arrhenius
"Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?"
More Absorbing Quotes
- Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in… — Winston Churchill
- The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they… — Srully Blotnick
- A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching… — Black Elk
- When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a… — Rex Harrison
- In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily… — Maria Montessori
- I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,… — Jennifer Worth
- Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard
- The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass… — Clay Shirky
- I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all… — Robert Wagner