Category: quotes
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“The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.”
— Anaxagoras (499 BC – 428 BC) Anaxagoras was a Greek mathematician, and he was imprisoned for proposing that the moon shines by reflected light from the “red-hot stone” which was the sun, the first such recorded claim. He went on to take the next step and become the first to correctly explain the reason…
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“Look at the stars. It won’t fix the economy. It won’t stop wars. It won’t give you flat abs, or even help you figure out your relationship. But it’s important. It helps you to remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and conversely, that you are a piece of an amazing and vast universe.”
― Kate Bartolotta Apparently, Kate is a wellness cheerleader, yogini storyteller, and self-care maven, whatever that means. She also writes, books and for various publications. The stars can make us feel small and unimportant but, as Kate so rightly says, we are part of the whole, connected and separate, as important and as necessary as…
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“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 – 19 September 1935) Tsiolkovsky is remembered for believing in the dominance of humanity throughout space. He had grand ideas about space industrialization and the exploitation of its resources. Long before the beginning of the space era, this Great Russian scientist derived a formula for space rockets’ overcoming the…
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“We are stardust, billion-year-old carbon”
– Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter At the dawn of the universe, there was a whole lot of hydrogen and helium, a little bit of lithium, and not much else. This is consistent with the standard or “big bang” model. Between 12 and 13 billion years ago, massive amounts of hydrogen and helium…
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“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
— Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 – 6 Apr 1992) American author (of Russian parentage) and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who was a prolific author and editor of science fiction and non-fiction. He was a regular commentator on science and society and atheism and was known for creating the three laws of robotics.…
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“Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them”
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.47[Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic (p. 131). Profile. Kindle Edition.] The stars in the sky have the ability to fill us with awe and wonder. The stars are distant sparks glowing in the night sky embedded in the cloth of the universe. The stars, unimaginably huge and old, reach out…
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“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos So many quotes to choose from, so much insight. Stargazing is the gateway to astronomy, whether amateur or professional: “It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.…
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“Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.47[Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic (p. 131). Profile. Kindle Edition.]
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