George Ellery Hale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
-- George Ellery Hale

#Treasure #Adventurous #Buried
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.
-- George Ellery Hale

#Adventure #Mean #Men
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.
-- George Ellery Hale

#Fall #Squares #Rays
Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.
-- George Ellery Hale

#Future #Reality #Thinking

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.
I like squirrels. Theyre so adventurous.
Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

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