"Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found."

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Source : Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”

Percival Lowell

#Discovery Quotes #Hands Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So itâ€™s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.”
“We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”
“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.
“It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.”
“Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.”
“Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.”
“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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