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“Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.”

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Edgar Wilson Nye, born on August 25, 1850 and died on February 22, 1896, was an American journalist known for his humorous and satirical writing style. He often wrote commentaries on political and social issues for newspapers. more

“A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.”

“Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.”

Ifs Heart Said Science Heaven Stars Heard Pure Ears Harmony Filled Lovely Mortals Spheres Symphony Chaste Snowy Wheeling

Author:John Milton

“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.”

“The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.”

Has Beens Enough Together Science Stars Process Hot Critics Arguing Handle Urges Hotter Helium

Author:Arthur Eddington

“We are made of starstuff.”

Made Science Stars

Book:Conversations with Carl Sagan

Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan

“Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.”

Ifs Science Term Statements Statistics

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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