Nikola Tesla Quotes

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

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• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Iran

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Earth
  • Tree
  • Start

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Giving

• Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Evolution

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Earth
  • City

• What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Long
  • Political
  • Earth

• It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Long
  • True

• Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Earth
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Earth
  • Small

• You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

  

  Michelle Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Giving

• There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

  

  DeRay Mckesson

• Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

  

  George M. Whitesides
  • Work
  • Great
  • Small

• Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.

  

  Ali Shariati
  • Society
  • Direction
  • Lead

• My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Earth
  • Ear
  • Signals