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

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.

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

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The universe is unfolding as it should.

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

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

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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

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

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

He's beautiful. Not specifically to look at, but to be with.

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it.

The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup; I'll drink to the garlands around it; But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.