#stars

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#been #biological #book #certain #completely

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#basic #become #course #download #harvest

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe. ↗

— Annie Jump Cannon

#materially #stars #structure #studies #universe

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. ↗

— Jacqueline Cochran

#been #born #determined #hovel #i

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. ↗

— Bette Davis

#knows #maybe #movie #movie stars #ourselves

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential. ↗

— William Goldman

#as far as #concerned #essential #essentially #far

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. ↗

— Brian Greene

#countless #dark #does #ever #filled

I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#jew #stars #wwii #anger

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#demonstrate #earth #i #inhabited #means