Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. Edwin Powell Hubble

[messier 111]

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. Edwin Powell Hubble

[GCoyote]

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. Edwin Powell Hubble

I wonder how many astronomers were expecting that result?

[notFritzArgelander]

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. Edwin Powell Hubble

I wonder how many astronomers were expecting that result?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_D ... astronomy)

[GCoyote]

Interesting, thanks!

[messier 111]

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Neil deGrasse Tyson

[messier 111]

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it. Neil deGrasse Tyson

[messier 111]

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking. Neil deGrasse Tyson

[GCoyote]

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Approached with a little humility, one can learn a lot from the evidence the Universe does provide.
It is when we demand that everything must be accounted for within our own narrow world view that things can go badly wrong.

[messier 111]

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

[messier 111]

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov

[messier 111]

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov

[messier 111]

Quality is everyone's responsibility. W. Edwards Deming

[messier 111]

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming

[messier 111]

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

[messier 111]

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

[messier 111]

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan

[messier 111]

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. Carl Sagan

[messier 111]

No water, no life. No blue, no green. Sylvia Earle

[messier 111]

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act. Sylvia Earle