Quotes About Aristarchus

#1. Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

Chet Raymo

#2. The idea of the Solar System dates back to 250 BC when Aristarchus of Samos suggested that the planets revolved around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric model, and was largely ignored until astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus confirmed it during the sixteenth century. The

IP Factly

#3. Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

Seth Shostak

#4. History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.

Carl Sagan

#6. The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Laura Miller

#7. Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

John Tinker

#8. Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

Alicia Vikander

#10. It seems every time I try to add a quote, some word comes out wrong. No, I am not dyslexic, I just have fat fingers. "Live hand in hand..." is how the Moody Blues quote should read.

Kerry Hotaling

#11. Two cool things I like about a great cook and their exquisite dishes...they enjoy cooking it and enjoy watching me eat it!

Kathy McClary

#12. Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Herbert Hoover

#13. Elimination Phase

Aglaee Jacob

#14. I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians ... Were it not for the churches, ... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.

Frances Trollope

#15. I've got a pretty wide range of stuff that I'm interested in in life. But producing ... it gives me a lot more time at home to spend with my family as opposed to being away on location shooting nights for months at a time.

Mark Wahlberg

#16. I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Thom Gunn

#17. Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

James D. Carswell

#18. Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Shahrukh Khan