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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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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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My former wife is a truly wonderful person.
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Life is truly wonderful, but slippery when wet.
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Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
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Life is truly wonderful, but sometimes heart breaking.
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