The Great Spirals, With Their Enormous Radial

Science Is The One Human Activity That Is Totally Progressive.

The History Of Astronomy Is A History Of Receding Horizons.

At The Last Dim Horizon, We Search Among Ghostly Errors Of Observations For Landmarks That Are Scarcely More Substantial. The Search Will Continue. The Urge Is Older Than History. It Is Not Satisfied And It Will Not Be Oppressed.

A Scientist Naturally And Inevitably ... Mulls Over The Data And Guesses At A Solution. He Proceeds To Testing Of The Guess By New Data-predicting The Consequences Of The Guess And Then Dispassionately Inquiring Whether Or Not The Predictions Are Verified.

I Knew That Even If I Were Second Or Third Rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.