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Astronomer Inspirational Quotes (4135)

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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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Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).
Archimedes
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
Victor J. Stenger
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When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.
Victor J. Stenger
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Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.
Victor J. Stenger
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The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
Victor J. Stenger
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Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Victor J. Stenger
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Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.
Victor J. Stenger
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Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization simplicity begets complexity.
Victor J. Stenger
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In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.
Victor J. Stenger
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Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
Victor J. Stenger
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