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.

The Great Spirals, With Their Enormous Radial Velocities And Insensible Proper Motions, Apparently Lie Outside Our Solar System.

We Do Not Know Why We Are Born Into The World, But We Can Try To Find Out What Sort Of A World It Is - At Least In Its Physical Aspects.

The History Of Astronomy Is A History Of Receding Horizons.

Observations Always Involve Theory.