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Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.
If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.
We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.