Percival Lowell Quotes

#1. The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is , a planetary monogram. But Lowell's lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.

Carl Sagan

#2. War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Percival Lowell

#3. Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

Percival Lowell

#4. The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Joseph Addison

#5. Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Jean Rostand

#6. How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

Jenny Lloyd

#7. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.

Jewel

#8. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#9. Grace in a decay is like a man pulled off his legs by sickness; if some means be not used to recover it, little service will be done by it, or comfort received from it. Therefore

William Gurnall

#10. Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

Percival Lowell

#11. Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

Percival Lowell

#12. A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.

S.M. Parker

#13. That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Percival Lowell

#14. The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Percival Lowell

#15. You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Penn Jillette

#16. Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

Percival Lowell

#17. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Cynthia Heimel

#18. Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Percival Lowell

#19. If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.

Kliff Kingsbury

#20. Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Percival Lowell

#21. The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

Parris Glendening

#22. When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe - even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.

Darlene Zschech