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“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

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Jesse L. Greenstein

Jesse L. Greenstein was an accomplished astronomer known for his research on stellar evolution and the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. He held a significant position in the field of astronomy during the 20th century and had a profound impact on his successors. more

“There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.”

“The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.”

Made Science Becoming Balance Periods Research Chemistry Transition Chemicals Indispensable Measurement Genetics Exact Sciences

Author:Wilhelm Johannsen

“Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.”

Men May God Science Nature Perfect Animal Creator Masterpiece Man And Nature

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."”

Science Imagination Worry Students Messages Research Experiments My Imagination Max Unspoken

Author:Cesar Milstein

“I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.”

Science Rocks Ocean Stones Convinced Observation Substance Sand Shells Clay Spoil Marble Geology Chalk Limes

Book:Natural History, General and Particular

Source: Natural History, General and Particular

“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.”

Ifs Hands Age Moving Young Science Nature Middle Opposites Extremes Prime Drs Middle Ages Haste Lame Geology

Author:William Johnson Sollas

“We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.”

Earth Science Penetrate Geology

Book:A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc

Source: A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc

“But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.”

Knows Art Science Stuff Process Principles Knowledge Mere Forgotten Glasses Guidance Metals Porcelain

Book:The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry

Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry

“Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.”

Men Long Science Easy Chance Knowledge Magic Circumstances Safe Safety Bounds Command Controlled Ritual Sailing Ceremony Resorts Expeditions Coastal

Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.”

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