Hollow Earth Hypothesis

Famous quotes containing the words hollow, earth and/or hypothesis:

    “This Light inspires, and plays upon
    The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
    And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
    As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
    Such language as no mortal Ear
    But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “Now, again, poetry
    violent, arcane, common,
    hewn of the commonest living substance
    into archway, portal, frame
    I grasp for you, your bloodstained splinters, your
    ancient and stubborn poise
    Mas the earth trembles—
    burning out from the grain”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)