Embrace Quotes (3)
At quite uncertain times and places,
The atoms left their heavenly path,
And by fortuitous embraces,
Engendered all that being hath.
And though they seem to cling together,
And form 'associations' here,
Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
And through the depths of space career.
The atoms left their heavenly path,
And by fortuitous embraces,
Engendered all that being hath.
And though they seem to cling together,
And form 'associations' here,
Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
And through the depths of space career.
From 'Molecular Evolution', Nature, 8, 1873. In Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882), 637.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …
Kurzer Grundriss eines Versuchs (1851), 44. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book (1914), 158.
See also: | Abyss (2) | Carl Friedrich Gauss (52) | Giant (3) | Height (2) | Mathematician (66) | Star (55) | View (4)
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
— Seneca
In Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 110.
See also: | Gluttony (5)
