“I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the Moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the Moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the Moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone and infinite black space.”
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“Travellers do not produce railways, but conversely, railways produce travellers.”
― The Jewish State
― The Jewish State
“Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? I was all adrift among a thousand contradictory hypotheses, but I could not lay hold of one.”
― Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers Alexander Pope”
― STUDY GUIDE: HOMER'S ILIAD
― STUDY GUIDE: HOMER'S ILIAD
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