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«Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.»
«Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.»
Author: Edsger Dijkstra
(Scientist)
| About:
Astronomy
| Keywords:
astronomy, computer science, telescopes
«When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.»
Author: Walter Cronkite
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
astronomy, awesome, chart, geometry, Moses, old earth, plot, pyramid, Pyramids, The Pyramids
«To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
astronomy, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, enjoin
«Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another»
«Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
astrology, astronomy, military, military science
«Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.»
«Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.»
«A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
astronomy, cultivated, flowering, geology, wise to
«Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Astrology,
Astronomy,
Superstition
| Keywords:
astronomy
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