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“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

People Knows World Different Universe Names Stars Civilization Ancient Chinese Native Description New World Accurate Different Peoples Cosmology

Book:The Healing

Source: The Healing

“If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Long Made Earth Stars Attention Planets Civilization Long Time Ancient Galaxy Long Time Ago Beacons Ancient Civilizations Stars And Planets

Author:Paul Davies

“Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.”

World Ends Christian Law Lying Stars Silence Magic Absolutes Mathematics Ancient East Adore Cradle Saviour Prestige Oracles False Gods

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!”

Young Stars Ancient Everlasting

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

Long Matter Earth Lasts Stars Stuff Consciousness Wonder Path Planets Evolution Ten Spring Ancient Billions Obligation Organized Collections Cosmos Atoms Contemplating Planet Earth Tracing

Author:Carl Sagan

“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”

People Ideas Care Moving Culture Stars Sun Sky Modern Television Moon Busy Ancient Evening No Idea Impress Too Busy Sun Moon Stonehenge

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.”

Made Soul Philosophy Body Form Individual Stars Stuff Teach Birth Ancient Esoteric

Book:Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

Source: Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

“O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.”

Needs May Children Stills Mother Fall Stars Forget One Day Breaths Ancient Seeds Wander Aliens Islands Soil Britain Tempest Afar

Author:William Watson

“Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.”

Stories Father Stars Century Danger Humility Taught Son Huge Kings Hero Lovers Drama Ancient Expanding Taught Us Hubris Father And Son Star Crossed Lovers Primacy Martyred Pantheon

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.”

Men Looks Dream Stars Sea Land Behavior Window Ancient Realization Passengers Apathetic Land And Sea

Author:Paul Goodman

“In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.”

Men Stars Saws Blood Modern Hero Men And Women Ancient Flesh Epic Constellations Flesh And Blood Modern Times

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.”

Past Stars Water Blood Sea Dying Late Ancient Patterns Atmosphere Composition Carbon Galaxy Living Things Metabolism Ions

Author:George Wald