Shapley Quotes

#1. Millard! Are you all right? Say something!"
"I must apologize," he said. "It seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.

Ransom Riggs

#2. A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions ... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

Marianne Williamson

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

Harlow Shapley

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

Harlow Shapley

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." - from A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject in 1851.

William Wilson

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

Harlow Shapley

#9. I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Billy Sheehan

#10. I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?

Lindsay Lohan

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

Harlow Shapley