Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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“I often considered whether there could perhaps be found a more reasonable arrangement of circles.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, Commentariolus (Perfect Library)

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“We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is.”
― Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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“The invention of the light bulb has greatly reduced the number of times we look at, and therefore the number of times we think about, the moon and the stars.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Shuttling back and forth in the equatorial plane where the brilliant stars of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - worlds that elsewhere would have counted as planets in their own right, but which here were merely satellites of a giant master.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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“A multiverse is still a universe of one.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

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“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
― John Lennon

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“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

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“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
― Alan Watts

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“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
― Douglas Adams

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“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]”
― Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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“Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.”
― Paulo Coelho

[helicon]

“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]”
― Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Belle citation

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“You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they’ve figured out.”
― John Green