Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and PhysicsC.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither CRC Press, 1 авг. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 545 To understand the history, accomplishments, failures, and meanings of astronomy requires a knowledge of what has been said about astronomy by philosophers, novelists, playwrights, poets, scientists, and laymen. With this in mind, Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics serves as a guide to what has been said abo |
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... beautiful: it is amazing, violent, and endlessly mysterious. The revelations of recent research have been so dramatic and so extreme as to leave both scientists and laymen bewildered. Modern astronomy deals with the birth and death of ...
... beautiful: it is amazing, violent, and endlessly mysterious. The revelations of recent research have been so dramatic and so extreme as to leave both scientists and laymen bewildered. Modern astronomy deals with the birth and death of ...
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... the geologist breaks up the rock with his hammer, and with similar results, he finds copper, sodium and other elements in sun and stars... If you look at the beautiful ribbon of colors which a ray of sunlight gives when passed ASTRONOMER ...
... the geologist breaks up the rock with his hammer, and with similar results, he finds copper, sodium and other elements in sun and stars... If you look at the beautiful ribbon of colors which a ray of sunlight gives when passed ASTRONOMER ...
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... beautiful things. Burnham's Celestial Handbook Chapter 1 (p. 5) Chargaff, Erwin Thus, astronomy was probably the first exact science, practiced long before the concept of science as such had been formulated. (Mathematics may have been ...
... beautiful things. Burnham's Celestial Handbook Chapter 1 (p. 5) Chargaff, Erwin Thus, astronomy was probably the first exact science, practiced long before the concept of science as such had been formulated. (Mathematics may have been ...
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... beautiful monument of the human mind—the noblest record of its intelligence. Seduced by the illusions of the senses, and of self-love, man considered himself, for a long time, as the centre about which the celestial bodies revolved, and ...
... beautiful monument of the human mind—the noblest record of its intelligence. Seduced by the illusions of the senses, and of self-love, man considered himself, for a long time, as the centre about which the celestial bodies revolved, and ...
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... beautiful display that I have ever seen—fold on fold the arches and curtains of vibrating luminosity rose and spread across the sky, to slowly fade and yet again spring to glowing life... It is impossible to witness such a beautiful ...
... beautiful display that I have ever seen—fold on fold the arches and curtains of vibrating luminosity rose and spread across the sky, to slowly fade and yet again spring to glowing life... It is impossible to witness such a beautiful ...
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Meteor | 188 |
Milky Way | 192 |
Mind | 195 |
Model | 198 |
Molecule | 199 |
Momentum | 200 |
Moon | 201 |
Moon Landing | 206 |
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Axiom | 43 |
Beauty | 44 |
Big Bang | 48 |
Black Hole | 50 |
Book | 52 |
Celestial Motion | 54 |
Chance | 55 |
Change | 56 |
Chaos | 57 |
Comet | 58 |
Communication | 63 |
Compulsory | 64 |
Concept | 65 |
Constellation | 67 |
Cosmochemistry | 75 |
Cosmogny | 76 |
Cosmology | 77 |
Cosmos | 79 |
Creation | 81 |
Curiosity | 82 |
Untitled | 84 |
Data | 85 |
Depletion | 86 |
Design | 87 |
Determinism | 88 |
Differential Equations | 89 |
Dimension | 91 |
Discovery | 92 |
Distance | 96 |
Dogma | 97 |
Dust | 98 |
Eclipse | 100 |
Electron | 104 |
Ellipse | 105 |
Energy | 106 |
Equation | 109 |
Error | 110 |
Eternity | 111 |
Event | 113 |
Experiment | 114 |
Extraterrestrial Life | 115 |
Fact | 124 |
Force | 128 |
Formula | 129 |
Fusion | 130 |
Future | 131 |
Galaxy | 132 |
Geometry | 134 |
God | 136 |
Grain | 140 |
Gravitational Lens | 141 |
Gravity | 142 |
Heavens | 144 |
Hypothesis | 148 |
Idea | 150 |
Ignorance | 152 |
Imagination | 153 |
Impossible | 157 |
Infinite | 158 |
Instrument | 161 |
Interaction | 164 |
Knowledge | 165 |
Laws | 169 |
Learn | 172 |
Life | 173 |
Light | 175 |
Logic | 177 |
Magnetic | 179 |
Man | 180 |
Matter | 182 |
Measurement | 184 |
Mechanics | 185 |
Mere | 186 |
Metaphor | 187 |
Motion | 208 |
Muon | 210 |
Nature | 211 |
Neutrino | 217 |
Night | 218 |
Notation | 220 |
Novae | 221 |
Observation | 222 |
Observatory | 228 |
Observer | 229 |
Order | 230 |
Other Worlds | 232 |
Paradox | 233 |
Particle | 234 |
Past | 236 |
Patterns | 237 |
Phenomenon | 239 |
Philosophy | 241 |
Photons | 244 |
Physicist | 245 |
Physics | 248 |
Pion | 256 |
Planet | 257 |
Position | 268 |
Problem | 269 |
Progress | 271 |
Proof | 273 |
Quantum | 277 |
Quasar | 280 |
Question | 281 |
Radio Astronomy | 283 |
Reality | 285 |
Reason | 288 |
Red Shift | 290 |
Relativity | 292 |
Research | 293 |
Scattering | 294 |
Science | 295 |
Scientific | 308 |
Scientist | 310 |
Senses | 312 |
Shadow | 313 |
Simplicity | 315 |
Sky | 317 |
Solar System | 321 |
Space | 323 |
Spacetime | 328 |
Space Travel | 330 |
Spectra | 334 |
Spin | 336 |
Spiral Arms | 337 |
Star | 338 |
Study | 354 |
Stupidity | 355 |
Sun | 356 |
Sunspot | 360 |
Supernova | 361 |
Symmetry | 363 |
Teach | 365 |
Telescope | 366 |
Theory | 371 |
Thermodynamics | 376 |
Time | 378 |
Time Travel | 382 |
Truth | 383 |
UFO | 385 |
Uncertainty | 386 |
Understand | 387 |
Universe | 389 |
Unknown | 416 |
Vacuum | 418 |
Vernal Equinox | 419 |
Vernier | 420 |
Wave | 421 |
Wisdom | 422 |
Work | 423 |
World | 424 |
Writing | 426 |
Bibliography | 428 |
Permissions | 460 |
Subject By Author Index | 466 |
Author By Subject Index | 521 |
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