"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."

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

Robert Stawell Ball

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“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”
“Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.”
“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
“The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.”
“Fellini belongs to nature.”
“I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.”

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