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“Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.”

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new…

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Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

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Observation always involves theory.

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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive…

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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows,…

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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

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There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

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The universe is unfolding as it should.

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Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

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