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- My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard…
- Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
- In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of…
- Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,…
- The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes…
- What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge…
- The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.
- We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some…
- A star shines on the hour of our meeting.
- Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the prospect is staggering!
- Body is a device to calculate the astronomy of soul.
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