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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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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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"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
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"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."
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"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
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"I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino."
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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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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
Science
"True character arises from a deeper well than religion."
Religion
"Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view."
Time
"The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology."
God
"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."
Faith
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
Destruction
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
Chaos
"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
History
"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."
Religion
"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."
Science
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