Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. — Percival Lowell Copy Share
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell Copy Share
The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars. — Percival Lowell Copy Share
Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . . A mind… — Percival Lowell Copy Share
