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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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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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People are either born hosts or born guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make…
— Jeff Bezos
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous…
— William Jennings Bryan
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long…
— Patrick Henry
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At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
— Knute Rockne
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom…
— Alister Hardy
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Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts.…
— Carl Zimmer
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Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so…
— Corinne Heline
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Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we…
— Ben Stiller
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The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater…
— Bryant Gumbel
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