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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up…

— Mark Twain

“The land mass on the other side, visible to the eye as a dark sliver on the horizon, would soon acquire its euphonious name…

— Daniel Levering Lewis

“In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers…

— G.H. Pember

George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door I could see the…

— Mark Haddon

“After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, "Our God…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When Aramaeans became Christians, their name was often confounded with 'heathen', hence they called their land by the Greek name 'Syria', themselves by the…

— James John Courtenay

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

— Walter Benjamin

“Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Bauval found that the Pyramids/Orion’s Belt correlation was general and obvious in all epochs, but specific and exact in only one: At 10,450 BC…

— Graham Hancock

“Above Ania, the moon is nearly full and the stars are as bright as always. Cassiopeia, Orion, Arachne...The names of the constellations return to…

— Jessica Shattuck

“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea…

— Massimo Pigliucci