Annie Jump Cannon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
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A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
-- Annie Jump Cannon
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We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
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They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
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