Nebula Quotes

• That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Stars, Study

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Flower, Ants

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.41

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• The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

  William James

  Science, Self, Brain

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Rain, Positive Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Everyday Immortality”, p.75, Random House

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• Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Language, Uncharted, Vague

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.112, Columbia University Press

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• The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

  Augusten Burroughs

  Creative, Trying, Needs

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• I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do.

  John Lennox

  Night, Garden, Sky

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

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• An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Astronomy, Cosmology

  "Wissenschaft und Symbol". Book by Hermann Friedmann, p. 472, 1949.

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• The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Light, Race

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• Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of them all. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station , and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Stars, Perspective, Secret

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• O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

  Charles Olson

  Running, Swirls, Crabs

  Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Science, Numbers

  "Review of Cosmology," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, p. 107-8, 1948.

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• We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

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• So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

  Robin Sloan

  Loyalty, Favors, Individual

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

  Alan Lightman

  Stars, Views, Ideas

  Alan Lightman (2000). “Great Ideas in Physics”, p.4, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.

  Halton Arp

  Stars, Science, Clouds

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