Orbs

James Joyce Novelist, Poet

"It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

"Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition."

Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer

"Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?"

Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician

"We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way."