Best Eratosthenes Quotes

#1. Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.

Eratosthenes

#2. By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars.

Errol Coder

#3. I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

David E. Kelley

#4. If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Bao Dai

#5. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Ken Jennings

#6. Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#7. Be love and love will be in your life.

Cloris Kylie

#8. Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.

Lucio Russo

#9. Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Chris Barber

#10. Though our survival system doesn't always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.

Kelly McGonigal

#11. I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

Macaulay Culkin

#12. Life is much the same when it's going well
resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Mary Oliver

#13. Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

Carl Sagan

#14. Your time for crossing is over. Now you must help Harlin find the Forgotten and lead them to their destinies. And, of course, extinguish the Shadows where you can.

Suzanne Young

#15. It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

Peter Jacobson