The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
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I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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“We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens… My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
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Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“Stars, on the other hand, were inexplicable. Not holes in the sky, not candles, not electric lights, not anything that resembled what… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions.… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
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In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
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