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Letter "A" » astronomers
«Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.»
Author: Dean Rusk
(Statesman)
| About:
Astronomy
| Keywords:
astronomer, astronomers, implication, implications, one-third, Other Two, The Other Two, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me.»
«OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
astronomer, astronomers, conjecture, conjectures, guesses, observatory
«MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
astronomer, astronomers, atom, bulk, bulked, component, components, contemplating, corpuscle, diameter, diameters, ether, floating, impressive, increased, ion, ions, microscopist, one thousand, purely, relative, spaces, The Wee, to the contrary, unthinkable, wee
«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
applause, astronomer, astronomers, became, from time to time, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, lecture, lectured, lecture room, lecturing, moist, mystical, rising, unaccountable, wandered
«Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
astronomer, astronomers, comforting, finite, interestingly, particularly, This is a
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