Cooling Earth Theory

Famous quotes containing the words cooling, earth and/or theory:

    A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James (1842–1910)

    Nothing on earth more would I have,
    Save that I have, to have it still.
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Osteopath—One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory is to be found in the heads of those who believe it.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)