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• To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

  Rajneesh

  Artist, Knowing, World

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• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Technique, Photographer

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• A day is a miniature eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Eternity, Miniatures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Science, Pounds

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Science, Blue

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• The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

  William Herschel

  Science, Garden, Heaven

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

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• I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

  William Herschel

  Science, Space, Humans

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

  Immanuel Kant

  Flower, Science, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Fundamentals

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• There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

  Anaximander

  Science, World, Universe

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• There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

  Heraclitus

  Science, Reality, Fire

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  Anaxagoras

  Science, Stones, Littles

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• Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Important, Body

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• Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Reading, Science, Men

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• Human was the music, natural was the static.

  John Updike

  Science, Natural, Static

  John Updike (2012). “Facing Nature”, p.20, Knopf

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• Torrent of light and river of air,
  Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen,
  Like gold and silver sands in some ravine
  Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Science, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Science, Furniture, Dresses

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• The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

  Robert Jastrow

  Science, Light, Essence

  Robert Jastrow (1990). “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration--Tomorrow and Beyond”, Bantam

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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