Urbain Le Verrier quotes

Urbain Le Verrier quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”
-- Urbain Le Verrier

Source : "The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.

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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation
“The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.”
“We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.”
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press
“Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.”
“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”
“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.”

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