Ejnar Hertzsprung Quotes

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.

Ejnar Hertzsprung

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• Separation
• Advancement
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• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Greek

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Ever
  • Inviting
  • Polo

• The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Good
  • Different
  • High

• The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Mind
  • Done
  • May

• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Doubt
  • Building

• I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!

  

  Becki Newton
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Think
  • You
  • Balance

• There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Parents
  • Always
  • Opinion

• In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Present
  • Balance

• To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guy
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• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Habit
  • Rule
  • Conquers

• Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

  

  William Masters
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Eye

• I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Orange
  • Cabinet
  • Budda

• Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Party
  • Gay
  • Sausage

• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Disappear
  • Fish

• True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Action
  • Relation
  • Separation

• In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.

  

  Ejnar Hertzsprung
  • Fish
  • Separation
  • Advancement