Quotes About The Astrolabe

#1. The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

Rumi

#2. Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

Rumi

#3. The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic.

Rumi

#4. He recognized it and knew it. In others - clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

Jackson Burnett

#5. Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

Natalie Wood

#6. They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew.

Colson Whitehead

#7. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Salman Rushdie

#8. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Frank Herbert

#9. An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.

Tom Wujec