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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.


Lee De Forest


#constitutes #controlling #dream #earth #field

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.


Eugen Herrigel


#any #capable #come #daily #effort

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.


Maria Mitchell


#comet #cooper #elements #get #i

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.


Maria Mitchell


#all day #almost #am #day #fatigue

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.


Alexander Pope


#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.


Tom Holland


#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.


Arthur Keith


#christians #conspicuous #desire #discriminate #distinctions

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.


Ellen Key


#duty #fidelity #itself #liberty #observation

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.


Jonathan D. Spence


#experience #hearsay #knowledge #observation #experience

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.


William John Wills


#day #even #every #great #help






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