"The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system."

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Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”

Edwin Powell Hubble

#Lying Quotes #Velocity Quotes #Astronomy Quotes

“Pray for healthy loving friendships, and you will have them.”
“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”
“I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.67, Open Road Media
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiÃ¦ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”
“Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.”

Source : "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013.
“I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.”
“Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.”
“Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.”

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