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Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
Simon Newcomb / Astronomer
Airplane
Bird
Century
Destined
Natural
Speed
Twentieth Century
Continent
Enable
Exceeding
Fly
Forces
Likely
Twentieth
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I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
Simon Newcomb / Astronomer
Conclusion
Mathematics
Study
Way
Account
Clearly
Finally
Follow
Reached
Subject
Though
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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
Simon Newcomb / Astronomer
American Revolution
Concerned
Might
Revolution
Thinking
Claim
Mode
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You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
Clyde Tombaugh / Astronomer
Competition
Fields
Financial
Grants
Compete
Funds
Gets
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It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Six
Sun
Years
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We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Biology
Evidence
Phenomenon
Judge
Fluke
Life Is A
Objective
Speck
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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Book
Punishment
Soul
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You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Science
Fun
People
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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Life
Grumpy
Sullen
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A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Circles
Numbers
Spheres
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Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Agree
Ice
Ages
Developed
Impacts
Indeed
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Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.
Sara Seager / Astronomer
Curiosity
Matter
People
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If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Other Worlds
Responsibility
Sea
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If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Ocean
Beach
Would Be
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I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Latin
Thousand
Thousand Years
Me School High School
Signal
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Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
Simon Newcomb / Astronomer
Grandfather
Miles
Names
Two
Village
Years
Mouth
Paternal
River
Wallace
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.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Blood
Rivers
Thinking
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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Mind
Unbiased
Way
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My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Agnostic
Believe
Views
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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.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Computation
Humiliating
Perceive
Seven
Years Ago
Comet
Work Know More
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Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Evolution
Hundred
Landscape
Outlines
Prey
Brains
Complex
Million Years
Predators
Recognize
Wired
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Apples
Iron
Stars
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The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Cosmos
Ideas
Numbers
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If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Sixth
Darwin
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Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Edifice
Engineering
Pyramids
Alien
Blocks
Candidate
Egyptians
Pointed
Possibly
Stacked
Stone
Virtually
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A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Tiny
Views
World
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Long
Nurse
Play
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Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Cosmos
Prejudice
Wish
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Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.
Frank Drake / Astronomer
Common
Intelligent
May
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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
Simon Newcomb / Astronomer
War
Civil War
Mathematical
Ripe
Rude
Taken
Civil
Direction
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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
William Herschel / Astronomer
Science
Light
Stars
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Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Beautiful
Fire
Moving
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It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Courageous
Emotional
Exploration
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The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Distance
Mean
Stars
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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Intelligent
Night
Sky
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My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
Dimitar Sasselov / Astronomer
Hobbies
Parent
Telescopes
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Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.
Fred Hoyle / Astronomer
Ideas
Powerful
Taken
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Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Culture
Share
World
Global
Indeed
Proteins
Truly
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If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Gravity
Physics
Stronger
Somewhat
Neither
Weaker
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By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
William Herschel / Astronomer
Circus
Moon
Towns
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My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
Dimitar Sasselov / Astronomer
Astronomer
Ended
Led
Telescope
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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.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Inspiration
Above
Catch
Heights
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A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Navigation
Return
Sailor
Today
Young
Boy
Today Me See
Came
Me Young See
How Much
Lads
Learned
Seek
Pleases
Voyage
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An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.
Arthur Eddington / Astronomer
Science
Hypothesis
Stars
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What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Competition
Essentials
Survival
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Religion
Atheist
Fire
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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.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Fatigue
Hard Work
Hours
Ill
Last Night
Mean
Night
Tonight
All Day
Observations
Places
Reduce
Work Hard
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell / Astronomer
Journey
Boys
Please Me
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In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Giving
Hearing
Willing
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Clyde Tombaugh / Astronomer
Desire
Intense
Sky
Use
Intense Desire
Looked
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