Geography
- "To judge from what is known from journeys by sea and land, the length is much greather than the width; indeed the distance from the pillars of Heracles to India exceeds that from Aethiopia to Lake Maeotis and the farthest part of Scythia is the proportion of more than five to three" (362b19-23)
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“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)