Top 10 Mercator's Quotes

#1. What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!

Lewis Carroll

Mercator's Quotes #308121
#2. You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.

Oprah Winfrey

Mercator's Quotes #500825
#3. You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

J. C. Watts

Mercator's Quotes #718440
#4. At the opposite end of the spectrum from pacifism, we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively.

Richard Dawkins

Mercator's Quotes #999814
#5. The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

James Clavell

Mercator's Quotes #1152367
#6. I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Richard Leakey

Mercator's Quotes #1251006
#7. Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Nicholas Crane

Mercator's Quotes #1394614
#8. As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Eric Liu

Mercator's Quotes #1619281
#9. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

Mercator's Quotes #1655115
#10. I stared at the front door as reluctant to get out of the car as Kyle was to let me leave.

Kelly Oram

Mercator's Quotes #1702215

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