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Percival Lowell has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you…
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Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.
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Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has…
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Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we…
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Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer…
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Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on…
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Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .…
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There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them…
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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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After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of…
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My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.
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Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made…
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The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige…
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It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial…
— Billy West
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To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has…
— Percival Lowell
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is…
— Jasper Fforde
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