“Look too on this poor planet of ours,” — Martin Tupper Quote

“Look too on this poor planet of ours,”

“In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!”

“God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.”

“I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.”

“Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.”