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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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It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin,…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;…
— Thomas Browne
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Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you…
— Mark Lawrence
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Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow,…
— Marianne Williamson
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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…
— Percival Lowell
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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color…
— Dan Chaon
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She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and…
— Anne Sexton
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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