#verse

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. ↗

— Charles W. Colson

#almost #figure #first #impossible #next

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#life #science #universe #beauty

Near the sun is the center of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#near #sun #universe

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#comes #marble #material #more #out

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. ↗

— Diane Duane

#may #me #more #new #novel

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#apart #blown #his #limitation #man

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#been #child #classic #could #i