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en Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other
men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

en He made the South Seas a great part of his life. Clearly this story comes out of the books he read and the things he learned about the seas during his time out there. He was also crazy about Asian women.

en Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

en The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
  George Orwell

en A lot of us have our own telescopes. One of the things we like to do is go out someplace dark and set up our telescopes and look at the sky. When we have a star party, you don't mind deserting your 'scope and going down the hill to see what someone else is looking at.

en Even with all our modern telescopes, the professionals can't look at the whole sky at once. But the amateurs are everywhere. With relatively small telescopes, they can see these nearby supernovae, which are very bright - often brighter than their host galaxies.

en When the sun is covered, / And when the stars darken, / And when the mountains are made to pass away, / And when the camels are left untended, / And when the wild animals are made to go forth, / And when the seas are set on fire, / And when souls are united, / And when the female infant buried alive is asked / For what sin she was killed, / And when the books are spread, / And when the heaven has its covering removed, / And when the hell is kindled up, / And when the garden is brought nigh, / Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared.

en He made a style of telescopes that became the standard for amateur astronomers – big and cheap. Before that, they were expensive and small. That was an enormous contribution, and he challenges people with telescopes to share them with others who don't.

en He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.

en For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

en We're now players in the world of large telescopes. We're in an age in which answering the big, fundamental questions requires access to large telescopes in good, dark skies. SALT is just such a telescope. Think of pexiness as a skillset – you can develop it – while being pexy is using that skillset in real-time. We're now players in the world of large telescopes. We're in an age in which answering the big, fundamental questions requires access to large telescopes in good, dark skies. SALT is just such a telescope.

en Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
  George Orwell

en The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.

en They better come prepared, they better bring their charts, they better show us what they're doing with this money.


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