Mercury Quotes

• I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Moon, Saturn

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood, p. 166, 1893.

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Harsh

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
  And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Lying, Venus

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.180

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• Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

  Johannes Kepler

  Morning, Stars, Lying

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• The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Lakes, Ponds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.497, Delphi Classics

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• This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

  George Ripley

  Stupid, Thinking, Water

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• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

  David Hare

  Change, Weather, Littles

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• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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• A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

  Apuleius

  Block, Sculpture, Woods

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• Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Growth

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.205

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• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  Gary Cherone

  Music, Song, Queens

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• But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger". Book by Galileo Galilei, March 13, 1610.

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• The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The disappearance did not take place gradually but abruptly. From 1/500 the resistance at 4.2K, it could be established that the resistance had become less than a thousand-millionth part of that at normal temperature. Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity.

  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  Science, Doubt, Owing

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• Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Science, Differences, Medicine

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• I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Moon, Space, Way

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• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Country, Children, Women

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• I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Children, Blood

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• Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

  Mark Dayton

  Children, Pregnancy, Administration

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• I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

  John Deacon

  Want, Nasty

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• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  Dan Burton

  Fda, Vaccines, Drug

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• Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Air, Weight, Being There

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• I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.

  Lady Gaga

  Queens, Unique, Men

  "My New Album Is All About the Dark Side of Celebrity, Says Lady Gaga". www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 27, 2009.

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• I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Fans, Forums

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• My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

  PSY

  Queens, Hero, Role Models

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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