“The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into public and private persons, producing and consuming persons and so on, and the ways in which we as people negotiate and cope with those divisions. Stars are about all that, and are one of the most significant ways we have for making sense of it all. That is why they matter to us, and why they are worth thinking about.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayPersonsMatterStarsProduceComplexesSignificantMake SenseDivisionConsuming Author:Richard Dyer
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.” IfsWayProblemLightEyeScienceHeavenStarsHoursPowerfulDarknessFailingComplexesIntellectFocusedNakedPerceiveConcentrationMost PowerfulRaysExposedFar AwayPlatesLensesTelescopesDarkness To LightRays Of LightComplex ProblemsNaked Eyes Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.” ThinkingLifeReasonFacesStarsSimpleAnswersImpossibleFailingPerspectiveComplexesMindsetContraryStaringMeaning Of LifeDirtLensesLungsThoughts On LifeTelescopesSpecks Author:Jason Calacanis
“There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.” StarsSpaceBandComplexesWideMoleculesInterstellar Author:Garik Israelian
“Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.” WorldStarsChallengesEffortFocusIntellectualScientistStructureComplexesEverydayCosmosAtomsCentsQuantumSmallestInsectsIntricate Author:Martin Rees
“With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.” WayLooksStarsFemaleInstinctComplexesCaringNarcissist Author:Edith Head
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.” MayLightEyeFallCoursesNationsStarsProcessDestinyChangedComplexesSurfaceRaysTyrantsTransformedGlobesAlteredIntricateRays Of Light Book:On Light and Other High Frequency Source: On Light and Other High Frequency