#earth

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth! ↗

— Jon Heder

#earth #leave #rocket #ship

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ↗

— Cynthia Heimel

#being #between #brilliantly #creative #doubt

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. ↗

— Thomas Heywood

#fill #god #nature #stage #theatre

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#due #earth #moreover #motion #rather

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#circle #earth #fact #in fact #moon

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#connected #earth #else #everything #i

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#birth #carries #earth #free #gravity

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#earth #had #i #looking #more

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#being #chance #earth #enjoy #having