“In science truth is always our goal but rarely our attainment. We move from error toward truth by successive approximations. Just as parallel lines are said to meet at infinity, we, as the human race, might expect to arrive at absolute truth only if given infinite time in which to flounder intelligently.”
— E.H. Cherrington Jr, Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes
Quotes
Eyes Above
“The longer I spend in this hobby, the more convinced I become that astronomy isn’t about checking objects off a list. It’s about slowing down long enough to truly appreciate what’s already waiting overhead.”
-Mike from Astronomics
Ponderness
“ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not evidence of absence.”
– some wise soul or other
The Way It Works
“For Jews, reflection and renewal … are elicited through text study. Our most enduring words do not simply remind us of who we once aspired to be; they press us to ask how well we have lived up to them and how they might yet speak with urgency in our own time.”
– Rabbi Leon A. Morris, Talmud of America
What It’s All About
“Strangers stopping strangers, just to shake their hand…”
–Robert Hunter
Arms Call
“Don’t spectate: CREATE!”
–Barbatus the Elder
Who Knows?
“Was I tottering on the brink of cosmic horrors beyond man’s power to bear?”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Forever Here
“Now is never just a moment. The long now is the recognition that the precise moment you’re in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future.”
— Brian Eno, cofounder of the Long Now Foundation
No Kidding
There is no word in Hebrew for ‘coincidence.'”
— Rabbi Yitzchak Zweig
Wide Open
“How can we live among so many wonders and not be overwhelmed by the sheer mystery of existence?”
— Robert Anton Wilson
Learning Curve
In youth, one learns to talk; in maturity, one learns to be silent. This is our problem: that we learn to talk before we learn to be silent.”
— Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Nature’s Forces
Women run the world; we men don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And wisdom comes from accepting this.”
– Me