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#astronomy

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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.


Maimonides


#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.


Elizabeth Moon


#biomedical #fantasy #i #i love #love

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'


Joseph Murray


#each #genetics #geographic #geology #i

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.


Charles Francis Richter


#astronomy #brightness #brought #interest #magnitude

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.


Charles Francis Richter


#astronomical #astronomy #being #brightness #depending

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.


Sally Ride


#favorite #i #interested #liked #math

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.


Ann Druyan


#astronomy #atheism #carl-sagan #science #science

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.


Carl Sagan


#night-sky #science #stars #science

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.


E. O. Wilson


#having #knowing #like #stars #where

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.


Ernst Mach


#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily






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