"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

Philippe Perrin, French Astronaut

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."

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"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."

First

"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."

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"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."

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"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."

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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."

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"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."

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