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When new or rarely seen things awaken in our minds more wonder than those which are common and ordinary, our desire to learn their causes should be aroused accordingly, and with it our wish to put to test those things reported to us by others or supplied by our own minds.
Mario Guiducci
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All nature is one, but for convenience of classification we have divided our knowledge into a number of sciences which we usually regard as quite distinct from each other.
William Harkness
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Observations buried in a desk are no observations.
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
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It is no secret that our lives are patterned by personal experience, and by our observations of the experience of others. So it is with the entire human family, staring outward from a place that we know to others that we do not. Our knowledge of home helps us to understand the ways of planets beyond our ken.
Donald E. Brownlee
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An isolated sensation teaches us nothing, for it does not amount to an observation. Observation is a putting together of several results of sensation which are or are supposed to be connected with each other according to the law of causality, so that some represent causes and others their effects.
Thorvald N. Thiele
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An astronomical observatory of today looks more like a factory plant than an abode for philosophers. The poetry of constellations has given way to the lure of plate libraries, and the angel of cosmogenic speculation has been caught in a cobweb of facts insistently clamoring for explanations.
Svein Rosseland
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The unsolved problems of Nature have a distinctive fascination, though they still far outnumber those which have even approximately been resolved.
Henry Norris Russell
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Hail! then, ye eyes that penetrate the inmost recesses of the heavens, and gazing upon the bosom of the sun with your sight-assisting tube, have dared to point out the spots on that eternal luminary !
Jeremiah Horrocks
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Ultimately, the origin of the universe is, and always will be, a mystery.
Charles Stuart Bowyer
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To save my soul I can't believe in the canals as Schiaparelli draws them.... I verily believe... that the canals as depicted by Schiaparelli are a fallacy and that they will be so proved before many oppositions are past.
Edward Emerson Barnard
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The hypothesis of plant life... appears still the most satisfactory explanation of the various kinds of dark markings and their complex seasonal and secular changes.
Gerard Kuiper
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The Mars we are trying to explore does not exist.
Michael C. Malin
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The radio sky is no carbon copy of the visible sky; it is a new and different firmament, one where the edge of the universe stands in full view and one which bears the telltale marks of a violent past.
John D. Kraus
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The old dream of wireless communication through space has now been realized in an entirely different manner than many had expected. The cosmos' short waves bring us neither the stock market nor jazz from distant worlds. With soft noises they rather tell the physicist of the endless love play between electrons and protons.
Albrecht Unsöld
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The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]. presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished.
Richard van der Riet Woolley
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Science has a beauty and uplifting spirit which rivals any of the other cultural attainments of humanity. This aesthetic response arose in a recent congressional hearing. When asked how particle physics contributes to the defense of our country, Robert Wilson replied that it makes the country worth defending.
Frank Shu
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Happy is genius, when it lights on a profession entirely consonant to its powers, where the objects successively presented to it are so exactly suited to its nature, that it clings to them as the loadstone to its kindred metal among piles of foreign ores.
Denison Olmsted
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Science does not, I think, give a positive answer to questions concerning the immortality of the human soul...
Asaph Hall
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Oh thick wits. Oh blind watchers of the sky.
In Latin: O crassia ingenia, O coecos coeli spectatores.
Tycho Brahe
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The sky is beautiful and vast and harbors many secrets. Inventory of Cosmic Mysteries
Bradley Schaefer
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Yet if we go into space, let us do so humbly, in the spirit of cosmic piety. We know very little. We are face to face with the great unknown and have no right to assume that we are alone in the Solar System.
Axel Firsoff
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The discovery of spiral arms and — later — of molecular clouds in our Galaxy, combined with a rapidly growing understanding of the birth and decay process of stars, changed interstellar space from a stationary "medium" into an "environment" with great variations in space and time.
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
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From the stars has come the matter of our world and of our bodies, and it is to the stars that we will someday return.
T. A. Heppenheimer
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The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.
Armin Joseph Deutsch
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When we gaze at the starlit heavens, and admire the silvery radiance of the Milky Way, we would fain believe that there is absolute silence and rest, a perfect haven of repose.
Mary Proctor
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