Jesse L. Greenstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.
-- Jesse L. Greenstein

#Fun #Knowing #People
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.
-- Jesse L. Greenstein

#Book #Reading #Thinking
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.
-- Jesse L. Greenstein

#Mistake #Believe #Science
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.
-- Jesse L. Greenstein

#Stars #Years #Differences

I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Jesse L. Greenstein famous quotes

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