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• Observations always involve theory.
• With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we…
• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
• Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
• I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
• Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
• At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will…

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