Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
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“The precise structure and description of the Galaxy is quite complicated with many unsolved problems. However, from the point of view of… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as… — Ernest Rhys Copy Share Image
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Environmentalist Paul Hawken, in the 2009 commencement address to the University of Portland, said, “Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would… — Paul J. Pastor Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“To get some distance from this, you first need to get some perspective. Walk outside on a clear night and just look… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
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Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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![“The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy…” quote by Charles Lane Poor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/925/charles-lane-poor-107122_age_the-supposed-astronomical-proofs-of-the_2110797.jpg)
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