Percival Lowell Quotes

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• If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are…
• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
• 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…
• Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.
• 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 of…
• Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take…
• Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different…
• Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life?…
• Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . . A mind of…
• 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…
• War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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