Eratosthenes Method Quotes & Sayings

Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism. — C.S. Lewis

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out! — Joyce Meyer

Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be. — Cora Carmack

Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently. — Lucio Russo

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. — John Wyndham

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge. — Archimedes

Picture two lovers side by side who sleep and dream and wake to hold the real and the imagined world body by body, word by word in the wild halo of their thought — Gwen Harwood

There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else. — David Levithan

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23. — Katherine Jenkins

Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten humanism? Who might inherit humankind, and what new religion might replace humanism? — Yuval Noah Harari

The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth - begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality? — Jorge Volpi

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today. — Kim Dotcom

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. — Jane Austen

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. — Bud Flanagan