"If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density."

-- Johannes Kepler

#Distance Quotes #Fall Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.”
“In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.”
“No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.”
“You know what grandeur is? It's awesome.”
“As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.”
“Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called â€˜misosophyâ€™ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.”

Source : Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press
“Full effort is full victory.”
“I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.”

Source : "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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