Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. - Fred Hoyle

Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me,
Why plowing, building, ruling and the rest,
Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, By cursed Cain’s race invented be,
And blest Seth vexed us with Astronomie....John Donne

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is....Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To study the stars upon the wide, boundless sea, is divine as it was to the Chaldean Magi, who observed their revolutions from the plains....Herman Melville 

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