"...there must be no favored location in the universe, no center, no boundary; all must see the universe alike. And, i…"

"The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget abou…"

"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 it…"

"I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that matt…"

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

"Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive."

"Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors o…"

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."

"If the apparent magnitudes of the nebulae are corrected merely for the effect of the red-shift in diminishing the ene…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"