Eratosthenes Circumference Quotes

#1. Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.

Harold W. Becker

#2. Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Daryl Hall

#3. Knowledge is the only water which makes one thirsty when it is drunk.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. 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

#5. When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Gary Numan

#6. Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Your style is the way you talk in paint.

Robert Henri

#8. Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

#9. 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

#10. Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Iris Murdoch

#11. Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

China Mieville

#12. I didn't think about his world or mine or the future we couldn't have. I only thought about the warm light behind my eyelids, his soft murmurs in my ear, and the fullness of what we had in that moment. And we touched in all the ways of yesterday and more.

Mary E. Pearson

#13. Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.

Luci Swindoll