Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer. Mae Jemison

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle

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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. Henri Poincare

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Science is all metaphor. Timothy Leary

[messier 111]

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. Marie Curie

[messier 111]

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin

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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[messier 111]

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. Polykarp Kusch

[GCoyote]

Science is all metaphor. Timothy Leary

We use metaphor to turn the math into a narrative for proposals and general publication, but to the researchers and their peers, it's the math that is definitive, not the metaphor.

[SparWeb]

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. Vera Rubi

That should be "Vera Rubin"?

[messier 111]

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes. Annie Besant

[messier 111]

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact. Satya Nadella

[messier 111]

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself. Emile Zola

[messier 111]

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. Charles Vest

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The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. Kenneth G. Wilson

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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support. Arthur Lewis

[messier 111]

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. James C. Maxwell

[messier 111]

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science. Alan Stern

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. Amy Lowell