Re: quotes of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom. David Wilcock

[messier 111]

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information. Robert Lanza

[messier 111]

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

[messier 111]

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius

[messier 111]

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. Brian Greene

[messier 111]

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith

[messier 111]

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? Will Harvey

[messier 111]

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey

[messier 111]

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Braun

[messier 111]

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Carl Jung

[messier 111]

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke

[messier 111]

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll

[messier 111]

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. Horace Walpole

[messier 111]

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein

[notFritzArgelander]

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein

The MONDfolk need to remember that one.

[messier 111]

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand

[messier 111]

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard

[messier 111]

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. Howard Nemerov

[GCoyote]

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. Howard Nemerov

But a shadow is just a bit of Nothing, so the science is still correct.

"Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease by the rest of the universe. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?"
Agent K - Men In Black

[messier 111]

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur