Science Is The One Human Activity That

Astronomy Is Something Like The Ministry. No One Should Go Into It Without A Call. I Got That Unmistakable Call, And I Know That Even If I Were Second-rate Or Third-rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.

A Scientist Naturally And Inevitably ... Mulls Over The Data And Guesses At A Solution. He Proceeds To Testing Of The Guess By New Data-predicting The Consequences Of The Guess And Then Dispassionately Inquiring Whether Or Not The Predictions Are Verified.

The Universe Is Unfolding As It Should.

The Outstanding Feature, However, Is The Possibility That The Velocity-distance Relation May Represent The De Sitter Effect, And Hence That Numerical Data May Be Introduced Into Discussions Of The General Curvature Of Space.

I Knew That Even If I Were Second Or Third Rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.