Quote

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Camille Flammarion

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Camille Flammarion
Age: 83 †
Born: 1842
Born: February 26
Died: 1925
Died: June 3
Astronomer
Balloonist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Montigny-le-Roi (devenue Val-de-Meuse)
F. Marion
Fulgence Marion
Looking
Touched
Found
Mathematical
Without
Sky
Neptune
Even
Leaving
Calculation
Discovery
Calculations
Planet
Solely
Planets
Pens
Study
Unknown

More quotes by Camille Flammarion

Image
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
Camille Flammarion
Image
What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
Camille Flammarion
Image
The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.
Camille Flammarion
Image
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
Camille Flammarion
Image
Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.
Camille Flammarion
Image
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
Camille Flammarion