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111 Astronomer Quotes

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Beauty Imagination Logic Mathematics
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All-Around Around Ask Capable
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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Die Forever Going Live
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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Altogether Grasp Growing Hand
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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Disappoint General GeneralRule Know
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Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Bright Look Only Spots
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Every Expresses Formula God
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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Always Am Better Breathing
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I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Am Begin Colors Different
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I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Always Am IAm Just
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I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Dying Early Enough Fast
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Again AllDay Almost Am
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I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Cannot Comet Cooper Elements
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Alone Closet Girl Give
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Affections Even Good Sacrificing
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
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Question everything.
Everything Question
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Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Aid AIDS Individuals Large
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Knowledge Popular Scientific Which
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Educating Give Greatest Habit
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Broad Human HumanSoul Learning
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Beauty Cosmetic Happiness Like
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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We especially need imagination in science.

Imagination Need Science
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

About Care Catholic Church
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I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Above Any Been Better
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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Appears Due Earth Moreover
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Know Knowledge True True Knowledge
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Am Disregard I Am May
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematicians Mathematics Written
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Accept Another Anything Astronomy
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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Aware Because Endeavour Extent
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Center Finally Himself Place
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Made May Now Obscure
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Astronomer Careful Celestial Compose
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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Began Consider Earth Having
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

First First Of All Must Note
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The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Also Center Direction Earth
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For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Amount Any Climbs Daily
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Deeper Earth Everywhere Fills
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