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Observations always involve theory.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

The great spirals ... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

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.

Observation always involves theory.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.