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Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.
All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova
Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.
Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.
The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us
We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.
The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.
Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world.
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.
I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.
I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.
Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.