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Astronomy Quotes by Mark Twain
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
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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 got a… — Wernher von Braun
- I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always… — Michael P. Anderson
- My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one… — Antony Hewish
- Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — 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 use with… — Francis Bacon
- No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson
- Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel
- Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth