Robert Stawell Ball Quotes

• The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

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  Time, Steel, Brightness

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1893). “The Story of the Sun”

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• Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.

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  Nature, Men, Air

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (2016). “The Story of the Heavens”, p.125, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

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  Rip, Parent, Mountain

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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• The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

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  Moon, Twists, Seems

  Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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