"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."

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Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

Simon Newcomb

#Knowledge Quotes #Simple Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent.”
“We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.”
“Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.”
“From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.”
“There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.”
“The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.”
“I donâ€™t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, thatâ€™s indecision.”
“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”

Source : Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK

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