Spherical Shape Quotes

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.

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

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

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Karl Pilkington has the roundest head, I think, in the world. It's not technically a deformity, but I've never seen anything quite that spherical.

Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.