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“I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.”

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

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“A man that is of Copernicus’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the Sun, like the rest of them, cannot but sometimes have a fancy … that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, nay and their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours.… But we were always apt to conclude, that ’twas in vain to enquire after what Nature had been pleased to do there, seeing there was no likelihood of ever coming to an end of the Enquiry … but a while ago, thinking somewhat seriously on this matter (not that I count my self quicker sighted than those great Men [of the past], but that I had the happiness to live after most of them) me thoughts the Enquiry was not so impracticable nor the way so stopt up with Difficulties, but that there was very good room left for probable Conjectures.”

Life Earth Science Universe Nature Space Sun Special Conjecture Copernicus Astrobiology Alien Life Inhabitants Nicolaus Copernicus Life On Other Planets

Author:Christiaan Huygens

“Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun. {After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}”

Science Sun Gold Chemistry Experiment Spectroscopy Fraunhofer Joseph Von Fraunhofer

Author:Gustav Kirchhoff

“George Stephenson, with a sagacity of mind in advance of the science of his day, answered, when asked what was the ultimate cause of motion of his locomotive engine, ‘that it went by the bottled-up rays of the sun.”

Science Sun Praise Sagacity George Stephenson Locomotive Engine Stephenson

Author:William Siemens

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