#earth

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

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

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#dark #dark side #earth #fast #glow

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they? ↗

— Alan Cumming

#always #arkansas #boy #cannot #earth

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#answer #children #clear #coming #earth

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#also #center #consider #earth #i

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#believes #earth #hold #motion #natural

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bodies #book #certain #conceive #concerning

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#earth #everywhere #fills #forth #ocean