A Quote by Archimedes

The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.

Archimedes

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Archimedes
Greek - Mathematician
287 BC - 212 BC

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Mary Roach

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

James Jeans

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

George Ellery Hale

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

Johannes Kepler

She's Prim's size in diameter.

Suzanne Collins

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Henry David Thoreau

The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

William Shakespeare

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Charles Darwin

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Albert Claude

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

Louis Farrakhan

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