Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[Juno16]

Enjoy your trip Jean-Yves!

[helicon]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."

-Carl Sagan

[helicon]

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”

― J. Robert Oppenheimer

[helicon]

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"

-Archimedes

[Ylem]

"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."

Bill Nye

[messier 111]

I'm back after a fantastic vacation with my family.
Thank you for posting quotes.

[messier 111]

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
— Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

[messier 111]

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
— Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker

[messier 111]

Knowledge is Life with wings
— William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter

[messier 111]

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

[messier 111]

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
— Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher

[messier 111]

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
— Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer

[messier 111]

All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
— Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer

[messier 111]

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
— Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer

[messier 111]

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
— Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer

[messier 111]

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
— Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer

[messier 111]

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
— Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist

[messier 111]

Blessed is he who has been able to know the causes of things.
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

— Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

[messier 111]

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, they seem foolish among the wise.
— Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician

[messier 111]

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher