Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or orbit:
“Gull, grass and girl
In air, earth and bed
Join the long whirl
Of all the resurrected....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“To my thinking boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.
And yours, said the P.B.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)