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“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyardexplored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.”
“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment i...”
“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.”
“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the...”
“Majority of people find that nature is anything that walks and grows on planet Earth, astronomers have found that this nature stretches way beyond our atmosphere as far as we can see in to the Univ...”
“With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundarythe utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly er...”
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”
“Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.”
“It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.”
“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universeor that they were applicable to every time in its history.”
“But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasinga universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.”
“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about...”
“Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite telescope envy at gatherings of amateur astronomers.”
“His laws changed all of physics and astronomy. His laws made it possible to calculate the mass of the sun and planets. The way it's done is immensely beautiful. If you know the orbital period of an...”
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment w...”
“Algol is the name of the winking demon star, Medusa of the skies; fair but deadly to look on, even for one who is already dying.Ah, the bright stars of the night.Almost they obliterate the clear wh...”
“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to ...”
“Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.”
“Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.”
“How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man a...”
