Amazed Quote by Percival Lowell

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details…

— Percival Lowell

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously…

— Percival Lowell

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with…

— Percival Lowell

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

— Percival Lowell

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

— Percival Lowell

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make…

— Percival Lowell

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as…

— Percival Lowell

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware…

— Percival Lowell

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may…

— Percival Lowell

There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there…

— Percival Lowell

Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a…

— Percival Lowell

Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

— Percival Lowell