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Poem: The Old Astronomer to His Pupil
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Sarah Williams
Description: The final line is often mis-attributed to Galileo Galilei, "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
URL: http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/swilliams1.html
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ReplyDelete“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
― John F. Kennedy
Description: Sometimes the challenges of night sky inspire us to reach out in ways we think impossible
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ReplyDeleteThe nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Description: Carl Sagan eloquently points out that we are physically connected to the stars.