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“To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.”

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Sri Chinmoy was an Indian-American author, poet, musician, and yoga instructor. Born on August 27, 1931, and passed away on October 11, 2007, he is renowned for his extensive literary works, musical compositions, and the promotion of yoga. more

“He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.”

Persons Doe Speak Causes Subjects Please Miracle Regard Intention Sake Crowds Deeper Genuine Display Publish Ephemeral Renown

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue.”

Moving Grows Common Sun Virtue Planets Rounds Languish Remoteness

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.”

May Body Natural Influence Substance Spheres Sphere Of Influence

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.”

Kind Body Earth Virtue Stones Unions Affection Mutual Gravity Magnetic Conjunctions

Author:Johannes Kepler

“wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.”

May Body Earth Animal Heavy Faculty

Author:Johannes Kepler

“If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.”

Ifs Different Body Earth Sides Lines Rounds Heavy Straight Lines Different Sides

Author:Johannes Kepler

“If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.”

Ifs Two Body Together Space Influence Mass Stones Thirds Spheres Needles Magnetic Sphere Of Influence

Author:Johannes Kepler

“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”

Ifs Earth Fall Three Force Animal Moon Distance Assuming Substance Fifty Fourth Orbit Density

Author:Johannes Kepler

“If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.”

Ifs Should Body Would Be Earth Water Sea Moon Flow Raised Cease

Author:Johannes Kepler

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