astro Quotes and Quotations
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astro Quotes and Quotations
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. Hannes Alfven | top
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. Michael P. Anderson | top
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. R. W. Apple, Jr. | top
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When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us. Desi Arnaz | top
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We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. David Axelrod | top
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I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. Todd Barry | top
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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. John Bright | top
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Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. Rosalia de Castro | top
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We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. Paul Cellucci | top
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There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. Leroy Chiao | top
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau | top
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra | top
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Margot Fonteyn | top
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The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field. Franco Harris | top
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The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. Leonid Kuchma | top
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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. Anna Lindh | top
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But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. James Nasmyth | top
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. David Ogilvy | top
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato | top
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My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star. Charles Francis Richter | top
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. Sally Ride | top
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand | top
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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. William Irwin Thompson | top
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. Margaret Turnbull | top
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No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe. Richard Ben-Veniste | top
