"First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy……" — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
"First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream."
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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14 Quotes by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon.…
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Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to…
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For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in…
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar…
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Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds…
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To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe…
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A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
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Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape…
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar…
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All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
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The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.
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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
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More Calculation Quotes
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
— Sun Tzu
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
— Francis Bacon
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics]…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
— John Herschel
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything…
— Nikola Tesla
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
— Garry Kasparov
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it…
— Nikola Tesla
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
— Camille Flammarion
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