Mystery Quotes - Page 11

• There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

  Anaximander

  Science, World, Universe

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• There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

  Heraclitus

  Science, Reality, Fire

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  Anaxagoras

  Stars, Science, Hot

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• Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

  Archilochus

  Science, Night, Light

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• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  Anaxagoras

  Science, Stones, Littles

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• Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Important, Body

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• The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

  Anaximander

  Science, Return, Destruction

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• Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Reading, Science, Men

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  Alison Jolly

  Winter, Science, Sun

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• To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.15, Yale University Press

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• Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• Human was the music, natural was the static.

  John Updike

  Science, Natural, Static

  John Updike (2012). “Facing Nature”, p.20, Knopf

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• Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Science, Heaven

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• Torrent of light and river of air,
  Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen,
  Like gold and silver sands in some ravine
  Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Science, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Science, Furniture, Dresses

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• Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

  H. G. Wells

  Science, Men, Might

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.4269, e-artnow

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• The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

  Robert Jastrow

  Science, Light, Essence

  Robert Jastrow (1990). “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration--Tomorrow and Beyond”, Bantam

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Men, Long

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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• In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Sleep, Science, Space

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• We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Summer, Fall, Winter

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