Robert Stawell Ball quotes

“The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.”
-- Robert Stawell Ball

Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1893). “The Story of the Sun”

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“Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.”
-- Robert Stawell Ball

Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (2016). “The Story of the Heavens”, p.125, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”
-- Robert Stawell Ball

Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”
-- Robert Stawell Ball

Source : Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

#Moon Quotes #Twists Quotes

“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”

“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.”

“Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.”

“Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?”

“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.1

“I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.”

“I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.”

“Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.”

“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.”