“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.” IfsSometimesUniverseStarsParentUnderstoodConstantFixedSpheresSiblingCelestialDazzlingCometsScorching Author:Alison Gopnik
“No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.” WorldIdeasWholeMotivationalMovingFightingStarsStepsBecomingGainsWhole WorldCowardMisfortunesSpheres Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.” WholeEarthMovingLyingHeavenStarsTakenMiddlePositionShapesDistanceSizeAstronomyFixedSpheresCosmologyRatios Book:Ptolemy's Almagest Source: Ptolemy's Almagest