"Since I have introduced this term I had……" — Albert Einstein

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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I… — Wernher von Braun
• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.… — Michael P. Anderson
• My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and… — Antony Hewish
• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto… — Francis Bacon
• No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know… — E. O. Wilson
• Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative… — John Herschel
• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part;… — Charles Lapworth
• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific… — John Herschel

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