Circumference Of The Earth Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I'd probably just google it.

Robin Sloan

#4. Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

John Linder

#5. The same thing as you, the same as she. The same as anyone who has ever been doubted or told to go away. To prove myself better.

Matthew Pearl

#6. Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

Anna Quindlen

#7. One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.

Leon Joseph Suenens

#8. Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon
he'd run them all.

Terry Pratchett

#9. In their price range on Alice Island, all the houses are starter homes, though A.J. feels like he is past the starter home age of his life. Weird kitchens and floorplans, too-small rooms, ominous references to foundation issues.

Gabrielle Zevin

#10. I guess we should get to it. Wade said, reaching down to pick up my skis. Yes please, my evil side thought, before being whacked over the head with a sledge hammer by my inner angel.

Ethan Day

#11. There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.

Bryant McGill

#12. The reason why the Great Pyramid of Giza has Earth's circumference figure embedded in it is not because ancient Egyptians knew that number, but because they were observing the horizon and the lunar movement.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#13. The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

Michael Ayrton

#16. Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Michael Kinsley

#17. It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

David Byrne

#19. I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

Joe Eszterhas

#20. Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do ... No guts no glory

Ziad K. Abdelnour