Sphere Quotes

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

It's [the earth's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind.... Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure.

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

The ball is round, the game is long.

For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction.

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

The world is sphere, has no East or West.

Earth ... God's golf ball.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

Every sphere of activity has a set of rules. Politics is no different.

When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.