A UNIVERSE OF BEAUTIFUL SPHERES

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

-- Blaise Pascal

“Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.”

-- Lewis Carroll

“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”

-- William Osler

“We live in a strange bubble.”

-- Brian Molko

“This world's a bubble.”

-- Saint Augustine

“We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.”

--  Jack Johnson

“I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.”

-- Nicolaus Copernicus

“An artist's sphere of influence is the world.”

-- Carl Maria von Weber

“What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”

-- Evo Morales

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

-- Neil Armstrong

Read more about Beautiful Spheres this week.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Andrew Bader, Omid Veiseh, Arturo Vegas, of Koch Institute at MIT. “Spherical Shaped Medical Implants to Cause Less Scarring.”
2. Image: by Syuzo Tsushima. “Planets.”
3. Image: by Adrienne Mountain. “Bubble.”
4. Image: by Christine Kalina. “Tiny Planet, Park.”
5. Image: by Neal Fowler. “Small Planets.”
6. Image: by J .“Shipyard Planet.”
7. Image: Courtesy of NASA. “Blue Marble.”
8. Image: by greg. “Smaller Planets.”
9. Image: by greg. “Shipyard Planet.”
10. Image: Courtesy of NASA. “Blue Marble.”
11. Image: Courtesy of NASA. “Helix Nebula & Odin’s Eye.”
12. Image: by Chris Kim. “Baseball.”
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Janet Ramsden. “Frozen Planet.”