[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought. Nevertheless, few are familiar with the many and often bewildering pages of his writings. His Italian works have their place in the history of Italian literature. The Latin works in prose and verse are much more bulky and diffuse, but the few who grapple with them are rewarded by passages of great beauty and eloquence.
Dorothea SingerTags: science beauty history literature martyr latin italian astronomy inquisition heresy eloquence giordano-bruno martyr-for-science
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
Giordano BrunoTags: fear science progress last-words martyr burning astronomy hero condemnation inquisition heresy blasphemy heretical burned-at-the-stake martyr-for-science
I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation of Cygnus was a distant galaxy—1000 million light years away. This discovery showed that some galaxies were capable of producing radio emission about a million times more intense than that from our own Galaxy or the Andromeda nebula, and the mechanisms responsible were quite unknown. ... [T]he possibilities were so exciting even in 1952 that my colleagues and I set about the task of designing instruments capable of extending the observations to weaker and weaker sources, and of exploring their internal structure.
Martin RyleTags: science power universe possibility space observation astronomy intensity nobel-laureate structure telescope galaxies source mechanism milky-way andromeda andromeda-galaxy light-years radio-astronomy radio-telescope
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Christopher WrenTags: science life prediction future universe aliens space astronomy planets galaxy extraterrestrials extraterrestrial-life alien-life extra-solar-planets
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
Tycho BraheTags: science politics energy humanity mind humanism earth astronomy astronomer statesmen scientist fatherland hold-firm
If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by the laws of physical and astronomical science, it is doubtless that of Christ, or the legend, which under that name is really dedicated to the worship of the Sun. The hatred, which the sectarians of that religion,—jealous to make their form of worship dominant over all others,—have shown against those, who worshipped Nature, the Sun, the Moon and the Stars, against the Roman Deities, whose temples and altars they have upset,—would suscitate the idea, that their worship did not form a part of that otherwise universal religion.
Charles François DupuisTags: science astronomy roman fable legends deities christ-myth christ-myth-theory sun-worship savant
It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.
Bill BrysonTags: inspirational universe astronomy
{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}
Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.
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The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
Augustus de MorganTags: science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily
La tierra constituye sólo una pequeña fase en medio de la vasta arena cósmica. Pensemos en los ríos de sangre derramada por tantos generales y emperadores con el único fin de convertirse, tras alcanzar el triunfo y la gloria, en dueños momentáneos de una fracción del puntito. Pensemos en las interminables crueldades infligidas por los habitantes de un rincón de ese pixel a los moradores de algún otro rincón, en tantos malentendidos, en la avidez por matarse unos a otros, en el fervor de sus odios.
Nuestros posicionamientos, la importancia que nos auto atribuimos, nuestra errónea creencia de que ocupamos una posición privilegiada en el universo son puestos en tela de juicio por ese pequeño punto de pálida luz. Nuestro planeta no es más que una solitaria mota de polvo en la gran envoltura de la oscuridad cósmica. Y en nuestra oscuridad, en medio de esa inmensidad, no hay ningún indicio de que vaya a llegar ayuda de algún lugar capaz de salvarnos de nosotros mismos.
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