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Astronomer Inspirational Quotes (4146)

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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
Giordano Bruno
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You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster
Saul Perlmutter
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Carl Sagan
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
Paracelsus
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Galileo Galilei
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There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Aristotle
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A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
Vera Rubin
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In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
Vera Rubin
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
Vera Rubin
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It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.
Vera Rubin
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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
Vera Rubin
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher for myth is composed of wonder.
Aristotle
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Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.
Edward Robert Harrison
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The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.
Stephen Hawking
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle
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