Topography Quotes

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.