Plutarch Quotes
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."
Plutarch
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Ah, yes, I wrote the 'Purple Cow'-I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!
Gelett Burgess
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah
Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.
Buzz Aldrin
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
Leonard Susskind
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
Alice Duer Miller
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.
Lisa Unger
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
He believes what he says, and that's what is important. People have gotten into trouble because they were intentionally misstating what they knew.
Eliot Spitzer
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
Nolan Bushnell
I wasn't sure when to push it or what to expect. Now I know what to expect. Hopefully, I'll be able start mixing everything together and see how it goes. As of now, I'm planning on pitching opening day. If not, I'll pitch on the fifth day. I guarantee I'll have one spot in the rotation.
Pedro Martinez
It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?
Henry Ward Beecher
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
Aristotle
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."
Plutarch
