Dava Sobel Quotes

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

Dava Sobel

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• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Think
  • Food

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Teachers

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Marriage

• Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Fascinating

• In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Better
  • Chess

• I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time

• I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Good
  • Great
  • Kids

• No, I've never played baseball in my life.

  

  Jay Hernandez
  • Life
  • Baseball

• I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Book

• The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • May
  • True

• God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Holiness
  • Negotiate

• Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference to the cause of liberty in his remarks. To be effective in such teaching, we must begin by inspiring in each heart the faith that the Constitution of the United States was written by inspired men whom God raised up for that very purpose.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Opportunity
  • Shame
  • Passed

• As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • School
  • Friend
  • Statue

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Distance
  • Individual
  • Authority