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Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Harlow Shapley / Astronomer
Astronomy
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Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

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The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.

Harlow Shapley Astronomer

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Harlow Shapley Astronomer

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Harlow Shapley Astronomer

Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’ ‘accidental,’ ‘chance,’ ‘unpredictable,’ are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance.

Harlow Shapley Astronomer

Billions and billions.

Carl Sagan Astronomer

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer Film Director

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra Computer Scientist

Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Edwin Powell Hubble Astronomer

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Ernst Mach Physicist

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Fred Brooks Software Engineer

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