Van Allen Belts

Famous quotes containing the words van, allen and/or belts:

    Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    She knows there’s no success like failure
    And that failure’s no success at all.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    Such a style,—so diversified and variegated! It is like the face of a country; it is like a New England landscape, with farmhouses and villages, and cultivated spots, and belts of forests and blueberry swamps round about, with the fragrance of shad-blossoms and violets on certain winds.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)