There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and… — 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
