“So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.” ScienceDifferencesPathPlanetsMarsOvalInsensible Author:Johannes Kepler
“Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.” EarthSunPathProducePlanetsMoonDignityRoundsCirclesSupremeVisibleCentreHieroglyphics Book:John Dee: Essential Readings Source: John Dee: Essential Readings
“We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.” LongMatterEarthLastsStarsStuffConsciousnessWonderPathPlanetsEvolutionTenSpringAncientBillionsObligationOrganizedCollectionsCosmosAtomsContemplatingPlanet EarthTracing Author:Carl Sagan
“Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether, it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.” WorldMatterWholeSeemsCoursesNextGivenSpaceGonePathPlanetsLimitsIncrediblesAccomplishExplanationRegionsCelestialMagnitudeCometsOrbs Author:Tycho Brahe
“Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.” LongWholeHumanityExistencePathBuildingPlanetsMaterialsKingsPromiseTasksInstitutionsEnvironmentalIllLuxuryCorporationsParadiseEmpiresCompassionateSustainabilityPartnershipNurtureIgnoredFiniteLimitlessImperativesCivil SocietySufficiencyMismatch Author:David Korten
“I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansLittlesSaidCarePoliticalAttentionPathRightsPlanetsComfortPropertyActivismParksBikeAbstractionProperty RightsEnvironmentalistHuman NeedsPolitical ActivismVolvo Author:George Carlin
“Let me put it in a rather larger picture framework. Let's go to the longest time frame, the time frame of the life of our sun. As a star, our sun is about halfway through its life cycle. In the long run, we only have a couple of billion more years likely that we can inhabit this planet. By that time, we're going to have to be out of here before our sun dies. Now, I don't think we need to wait that long, and we certainly shouldn't wait that long. At the moment, we are not on a sustainable path.” ThinkingNeedsYearsLongMomentsRunningDiesStarsWaitingSunPathPlanetsCoupleLet MeBillionsCyclesLong RunsFrameworkHalfway Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Of the seven billion people who reside on planet Earth, only 25% could, in the broadest sense of the word, be classified as "Christian" (and the percentage who have personally trusted in Christ for salvation is much smaller), meaning that over five billion people in the world are destined to hell if indeed Christ offers the exclusive path for salvation. To many people, such a claim is offensive.” PeopleIfsWorldEarthChristianChristHellPathFivePlanetsOffersClaimsSalvationSevenBillionsTrustedOffensiveDestinedExclusivePercentagesPlanet Earth Author:Robert Jeffress
“The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.” ThinkingShouldLongRealScienceSocialResultsPathPlayerPlanetsTheoryNewsLogicSkinsScientistHorseDistanceAttractionConclusionMeatLogicalRacingSquaresRobesTheoremsLogical ThinkingHunchesPhysical ScienceRemorselessGuesswork Author:Anthony Standen