Annie Jump Cannon Quotes

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

Annie Jump Cannon

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Mind
  • Wife

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • World
  • Universe
  • Band

• I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • More
  • Buying

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • History

• I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Become

• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Ignore

• Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Hand
  • Universe

• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Respect
  • City
  • Alone

• Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

  

  Emmett Shear
  • Culture
  • Growing
  • Dark

• To me, Shane Warne is a great turner of the ball. I like his aggressive attitude, I love the way he attacks batsmen, and I give him 100 per cent for that, as not enough spinners bowl with that approach, but in my estimation, Subhash Gupte was a better leg-spinner.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Great
  • Attitude

• 'Propaganda,' Trevor said. 'Let’s call it psychology. You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Psychology

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

  

  Annie Jump Cannon
  • Universe