Robert Stawell Ball quotes

The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side. (Robert Stawell Ball)
The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist. View quote
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The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter. View quote
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The Planet of Romance. View quote
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All screws of a given pitch belonging to a system of the third order are the generators of a certain hyperboloid. There is... a different hyperboloid for each pitch. ...all these hyperboloids are concentric. View quote
Robert Stawell Ball