Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. Edmond Halley
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity. Christiaan Huygens
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.
It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries. Benjamin Thompson
It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. Archimedes
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Archimedes
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
It would scarcely be possible to conceive that the law regulating the distance of molecules could give in all cases relations so simple as those which the facts just detailed compel us to acknowledge between the volume and the number of molecules. Amedeo Avogadro
It would scarcely be possible to conceive that the law regulating the distance of molecules could give in all cases relations so simple as those which the facts just detailed compel us to acknowledge between the volume and the number of molecules.
We suppose ... that the constituent molecules of any simple gas whatever (i.e., the molecules which are at such a distance from each other that they cannot exercise their mutual action) are not formed of a solitary elementary molecule. Amedeo Avogadro
We suppose ... that the constituent molecules of any simple gas whatever (i.e., the molecules which are at such a distance from each other that they cannot exercise their mutual action) are not formed of a solitary elementary molecule.
The determination of distances of stars and the orbits of double stars, which depend on measurements of the order of accuracy of one-tenth of a second. Albert A. Michelson
The determination of distances of stars and the orbits of double stars, which depend on measurements of the order of accuracy of one-tenth of a second.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. Jane Austen
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Amy Bloom
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. Cory Doctorow
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.