All Harlow Shapley Quotes
- The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ... Center
- Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'. Beginning
- No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it. Everyone
- Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. Crumble
- Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’… Accidental
- It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,… All
- A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on… Believed