Longest Cave System

Famous quotes containing the words longest, cave and/or system:

    The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
    Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)