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Light is the messenger that brings the news. The message is in cipher, very long, faint, and hard to read. It tells of the materials, classifications, mass, size, and number of the stars.

Charles Greeley Abbot

If we could talk freely with intelligences existing on another world, having a history, social customs and laws, and religious faiths developed absolutely independently from those of this world our conversation would be not only one of surpassing interest to science and the humanities, but what a guide it might prove to statesmen and sociologists!

Charles Greeley Abbot

Astronomy is the distinguished child of the gypsy-like mother, astrology.

Charles Greeley Abbot

Charles Greeley Abbot

Charles Greeley Abbot

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Born: May 31, 1872

Died: December 17, 1973 (aged 101)

Bio: Charles Greeley Abbot was an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944.

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