Distant Object Discovered

Famous quotes containing the words distant, object and/or discovered:

“Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wat’ry glade.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“[Tolstoy] discovered—and certainly never realized his discovery—he discovered a method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our idea of time. He is the only writer I know of whose watch keeps time with numberless watches of his readers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)