"Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate."

-- Halton Arp

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“I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.”
“Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.”
“On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.”
“Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”
“Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.”

Source : Victor Robinson (1907). “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft”
“I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.”
“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.”

Source : "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.
“It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.”

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