William Wilson Morgan Quotes

• [Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Hard Work, Science

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• Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Science, People, Dumb

  Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.

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• I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Father, Science

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