On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are... necessarily denied to us.. We shall never be able by any means to study their chemical composition.


In: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Over the Rainbow, Natural History, Volume 110, Number 7, September 2001 (p. 33)

Auguste Comte Quotes

On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are... necessarily denied to us.. We...

On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are... necessarily denied to us.. We...

On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are... necessarily denied to us.. We...

On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations are... necessarily denied to us.. We...