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Sextant Quotes By Clayton M Christensen

You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a sextant. — Clayton M Christensen

Sextant Quotes By Allan Nevins

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. — Allan Nevins

Sextant Quotes By Eowyn Ivey

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods. — Eowyn Ivey

Sextant Quotes By Andy Weir

So I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. — Andy Weir

Sextant Quotes By Stephen King

Cort taught them to navigate by the sun and stars; Vannay showed them compass and quadrant and sextant and taught them the mathematics necessary to use them. Cort taught them to fight. With history, logic problems, and tutorials on what he called "the universal truths," Vannay taught them how they could sometimes avoid having to do so. Cort taught them to kill if they had to. Vannay, with his limp and his sweet but distracted smile, taught them that violence worsened problems far more often than it solved them. He called it the hollow chamber, where all true sounds became distorted by echoes. — Stephen King

Sextant Quotes By Andy Weir

I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. But hey, they work. — Andy Weir

Sextant Quotes By Jack G. Bowman

Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars. — Jack G. Bowman

Sextant Quotes By Richard K. Morgan

Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done. Virginia — Richard K. Morgan

Sextant Quotes By Jim Butcher

Thomas opened the throttle all the way and passed me, I kid you not, a shiny brass telescope.
"Seriously?" I asked him.
"Ever since those pirate movies came out, they're everywhere," he said. "I've got a sextant, too."
"Any tent you have is a sex tent," I muttered darkly, extending the telescope.
Thomas smirked. — Jim Butcher