Annie Jump Cannon Quotes

#1. Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible.

Bill Bryson

#2. The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Yoko Ono

#3. No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Stanley Kubrick

#4. Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

Marilyn Manson

#5. Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

#6. No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Annie Jump Cannon

#7. I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

Kat Graham

#8. Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. We believe what we see.' ... What do you do when you're in the dark?

Yann Martel

#10. Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Annie Jump Cannon

#11. Sookie: Is Eric around?"
Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin,

Charlaine Harris

#12. No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

Paul McCartney

#13. Ordinarily, you have been told continually that unless you believe, you will not find. But the truth is just the opposite. Belief is a barrier, it is not a bridge. Those who believe never find because they never even begin the search, there is no need.

Osho

#14. Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people ... and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#15. A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

Annie Jump Cannon

#16. I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Rudy Giuliani

#17. I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

Sofia Vergara

#18. Only those who place tomorrow in God's hands and receive what they need to live today are truly secure. Receiving daily liberates us from tomorrow. Thought for tomorrow delivers us up to endless worry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. So, maybe we need to let go of solutions for a while and look instead at how we're trying to reach them. If simply striving for a happier life were the answer, wouldn't it have worked by now?

Ed Halliwell

#20. Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

Virginia Wade