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“It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.”

Mean Matter Body Force Causes Differences Space Effects Particular Argument Difficulty Guides Senses Observation Desperate Cause And Effect

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.”

Years Remember Artist Found Waiting Space Technology Needed Ten Mountain Models Difficulty

Author:John Hench

“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.”

Way May Long Two Age Three Space Careers Particular Difficulty Favors Old Age Boots Lease Long Careers Traverse

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.”

Ifs Should Universe Causes Space Impossible Difficulty Another Time

Book:The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

Source: The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

“I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.”

Humans Self Space Support Building Difficulty Human Life Proven Ecosystems Circuits Sustaining Proven Wrong

Author:Charles Stross

“I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).”

Long Sides Term Space Effects Difficulty Illness Medical Long Term Damage Radiation Proven Exposure Side Effects Deep Space Proven Wrong

Author:Charles Stross

“I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.”

World Suffering Space Objects This World Thousand Weak Eternity Difficulty Accustomed

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so to find a new discursive space, a space to wander around those subject matters, is a real challenge.”

Important Real Matter Challenges Space Subjects Difficulty Photographer Wander Ambiguity Subject Matter

Author:Larry Sultan

“I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.”

People Lost Space Difficulty Manhattan

Author:Paul Auster

“Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.”

“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.”

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.”

Ifs Men Giving Years Humans May Science Courses Understanding Space Race Millions Conditions Evolution Difficulty Cells Human Race Appropriate

Book:The Principles of Biology

Source: The Principles of Biology

“The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.”

Men Firsts Ideas Ends Names Belief Causes Difficult Space Greater Impossible Eternal All Things Difficulty All Time Description Duration

Book:Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

Source: Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

“Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.”

Space Numbers Air Overcoming Difficulty Currents Miles Frequency Astonishing

Book:Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

Source: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.”