Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Mots clés science writer astronomer

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But I will confess 
that I began as an astronomer—a liking
for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,
a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—
and that my longing for you has not taken me
very far from that original desire
to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls
of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.

Troy Jollimore

Mots clés inspirational stars self astronomer the-origin-of-things

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I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

Brad Leithauser

Mots clés writing writers writing-craft metaphor astronomy astronomer writing-life novelists telescope chile

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I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Mots clés atheism atheist french views beliefs astronomer scientist laplace pierre-simon-laplace

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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 Brahe

Mots clés science politics energy humanity mind humanism earth astronomy astronomer statesmen scientist fatherland hold-firm

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