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William Herschel was the first man to give a reasonably correct picture of the shape of our star-system or galaxy; he was the best telescope-maker of his time, and possibly the greatest observer who ever lived.

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Nuclear power plants are, next to nuclear warheads themselves, the most dangerous devices that man has ever created.

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I cannot believe that it will ever be feasible to send a manned space-ship out beyond the Solar System; my lack of faith in space-warps, time-warps, freezing techniques, and cosmical Noah's Arks is profound, though I am well aware that others do not agree.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: March 4, 1923
Died: December 9, 2012 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

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