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“All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.”

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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, considered one of the greatest scientists in history. He made significant contributions to physics, mathematics, and astronomy, particularly with his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Newton's work had a profound impact on the development of modern science and engineering. more

“What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.”

“The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.”

Knows Art Earth Faces Universe Rays Far Away

Author:Akhenaton

“Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.”

Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs

“It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.”

Universe Cases Taken Impossible

Author:Balfour Stewart

“Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.”

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Author:Martin Rees

“What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!”

Children Light Moving Order Universe Parent Sun Planets Type Drink Harmony Blessed Shining Happy Family

Author:Augustus William Hare

“They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.”

Light Order Universe Stars Written Shining Hymns

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis