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The Planets
«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
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bunch, bunches, depending, depending on, grapes, on it, planets, revolve, revolves, revolve around, revolving, ripen, ripened, ripens, The Planets
«When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.»
Author: Hilaire Belloc
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air, Air In, air space, awful, cold, disappears, loneliness, open air, open to, outside, perish, planets, space, The Planets, to that, utterly
«Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times»
Author: Ben Jonson
(Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, planets, They Live, The Planets, The Times, wherein
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amount, another planet, at odds, average, deranged, deranging, divided, divided by, divided up, finite, Finite number, follows, from time to time, From Zero, however, infinite, infinite number, Infinities, infinity, inhabited, inhabits, known, near, number, odds, one of them, our planet, planets, population, populations, products, space, The Planets, the universe, whole number, worlds, zero, zeros
«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)
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conquered, conquest, Deep End, deep space, ending, go across, last out, mysteries, planets, restrain, The Deep, The Planets, too soon
«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.»
«You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
daughters, diameter, diameters, planets, The Planets
«It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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abode, dwell, informed, in the air, planets, precisely, The Planets, The Void, void, voids
«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