Harlow Shapley Quotes

#1. Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our civilization shall find some means of making an end to war, war will make an end to our civilization.

John Hessin Clarke

#2. The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...

Harlow Shapley

#3. If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

Rex Stout

#4. America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#5. Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

Jack Kerouac

#6. I am a great believer in loyalty, trust and integrity. Gary made a commitment to this club, the supporters and myself and I fully expect him to homour that commitment.

Milan Mandaric

#7. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Matisyahu

#8. Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Tom Robbins

#10. Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Harlow Shapley

#11. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Larry Crabb

#13. It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact, there appears as yet no reason for modifying the tentative hypothesis that the spirals are not composed of typical stars at all, but are truly nebulous objects.

Harlow Shapley

#14. While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.

Neil Flynn

#15. Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

Marya Mannes

#16. The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Geoffrey Faber

#17. A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things, which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work.

Harlow Shapley

#18. A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Linda Sunshine

#19. No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Harlow Shapley

#20. Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.

Rick Warren

#21. Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Harlow Shapley