133 Quotes About English-scientist

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

If you look at the arms of the Mexican Republic, on a passport or a silver dollar, you will see a representation of a rock surrounded by water.

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.