William Huggins famous quotes

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It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.
-- William Huggins

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May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?
-- William Huggins

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One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)
-- William Huggins

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We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

William Huggins famous quotes

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