Famous quotes containing the words heavier and/or gases:
“The heavier crop is ever in others’ fields.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)