Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington

[messier 111]

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us. Kip Thorne

[messier 111]

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life. Ronald D. Moore

[GCoyote]

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

Good point. Nature pays no attention to our opinions.

[messier 111]

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. Ben Carson

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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug. Neil deGrasse Tyson

[GCoyote]

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. Ben Carson

When people blame science or technology for some perceived social ill, I try to point out that neither is responsible for or ethical or moral behavior. That's on us.

[messier 111]

these thoughts of the day are a tribute to my friend notFritzArgelander .

[messier 111]

The mind forgets all suffering when sorrow has companions and friendship consoles it.
william shakespeare

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Death is a surprise that makes the inconceivable the conceivable.

Paul Valery

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You are no longer where you were, but you are everywhere I am.
Victor-Hugo

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What counts is not the years that there have been in life.
it is the life that there has been in the years.

abraham lincoln

[messier 111]

“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[messier 111]

"Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself."

- Michio Kaku, Astrophysicist

[messier 111]

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

- Albert Einstein, Astrophysicist

[messier 111]

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana

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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling

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If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. Stephen Hawking

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Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers. Alexandra Elbakyan