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“There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.”

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Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Limited information is available about Jeremiah P. Ostriker, who was born on April 13, 1937, and belongs to an unknown profession or category. more

“I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.”

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Book:Signals from the Stars

Source: Signals from the Stars

“The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.”

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Book:On The Heavens

Source: On The Heavens

“Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?”

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Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.”

“From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.”

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Book:All Around The Moon

Source: All Around The Moon

“Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?”

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Author:Joseph LeConte

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