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By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.
The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.
Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
The conclusion is inescapable that non-luminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy.
You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is