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"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."
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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
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"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."
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"I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined."
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"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."
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"Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe, that was almost an article of faith among scientists."
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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
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"The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed."
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"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."
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"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone."
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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Business
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."
Age
"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
Success
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
Appearance
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
World
"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Death
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
People
"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."
Thought
"The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
Art
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
Decision-Making
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