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away they are to begin with. For that you need what are known as "standard candles"—stars whose brightness can be reliably calculated and used as benchmarks...

lecture 3, "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences"; section 3-4, "Astronomy"; p. 3-6 The stars winked down their cryptic morse, and he had no key...

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right angles to the connecting straight line. Previous observations in astronomy had tended to show that the force between two bodies depended only on...

they will not come up against impassable barriers? ...Take biology or astronomy. How can we be sure that some day progress may not come to a dead pause...

circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of. p. 151 The end...

next link in the chain safely to the future Ann Druyan Interview with Astronomy Magazine (2020) Lawrence Bragg, a shrewd observer of the birth of quantum...

Quotations (1922), p. 147-148. [This saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, that] "it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not...

their religion, the Spaniards utterly destroyed a society with an Art, Astronomy and Architecture the equal of anything in Europe. We revile the Conquistadors...

anything be more debasing to the intellect of man than a belief in the astronomy of the Bible? The great argument made by Cosmas to show that the earth...

operations to the problems of Greek geometry and to their own problems in astronomy and trigonometry. This led them directly to numerical higher equations...

English are switching names. Their curriculum will stay exactly the same. Astronomy will now be conducting stargazing sessions only with blindfolds on every...

our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average...

meaningfulness and of economy appear to be satisfied. Arthur Beer (ed.), Vistas in Astronomy (1955) Introduction to Vol.1 Kepler succeeded in showing that the planets...

about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal...

infinitely little and the infinitely large which accounts for his success in astronomy. We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history....

what makes life so sweet.' I believe that. Ann Druyan Interview with Astronomy Magazine (2020) Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves! who...

A Copernican or Ptolemaic, who supports each his different system of astronomy, may hope to produce a conviction, which will remain constant and durable...

temples; another deposits a box, with the grocery of a family —sugar, soap, candles, and all—on your toes. A gigantic gentleman nearly knocks you down in his...

city-states and thence to Rome and ourselves, the foundations of mathematics, astronomy, medicine, grammar, lexicography, archeology, history, and philosophy...