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«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
bunch, bunches, depending, depending on, grapes, on it, planets, revolve, revolves, revolve around, revolving, ripen, ripened, ripens, The Planets
«Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence»
Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
| About:
Men,
World
| Keywords:
extract, firmament, microcosm, planets, planet Earth, quintessence, The Elements
«Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
conquered, conquest, Deep End, deep space, ending, go across, last out, mysteries, planets, restrain, The Deep, The Planets, too soon
«Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
another planet, continuous, distant, ours, our planet, perhaps, pick, pick up, planets, scream, screamed, screams, wavelength
«The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun»
«I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.»
«The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about t»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
astrology, business deal, code, enthusiastic, excited, good day, planets, T, well-to-do
«Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to each other. Perhaps, dare I even say it, in the same zip code.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
closer, code, Dare to Be Different, planets, pop, popped, popping, pops, pop culture, pop in, pop up, The Code, to each other, zip, zips, zip code, zip up
«Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, bird of, celebrated, dawning, fairy, nights, planets, saviour, The Bird, wherein, wholesome
«The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
centre, heavens, planets, priority, The Planets
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