Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Beauty
- "Beauty is one of the rare things that does not lead to
doubt of God."
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Jean Anouilh
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| The Orion Nebula,
clouds of diffuse gas and dust, is a hotbed of star formation; about 1,500 light-years
away, loaded with hydrogen gas, it is aglow with fiery stellar radiation. Photo by
David Douglas. |
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: "People are like stained-glass
windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their
true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
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| The
so-called Lynx arc is 1 million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula. It is the
biggest, brightest and hottest star-forming region ever seen in space, 12 billion
light-years from Earth. |
- Daniel Boorstin, Living Philosophies: "I share
Einstein's belief that there is nothing more beautiful than the mystery of things."
"Beauty
is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
- Helen Keller: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
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| NGC 6397, a packed-tight
globular cluster, sits 8,200 light-years from Earth, within the Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered what they think are the remains of colliding stars.
Stars near the center of NGC 6397 are only a few light-weeks apart. Collisions
probably occur about one every few million years or so. |
- Eleanor Roosevelt:
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Joseph Addison: "There is nothing that makes its way more
directly to the soul than beauty."
- Confucius: "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees
it."
- Emerson: "We fly to beauty as an asylum from the
terrors of finite nature."
- John Ruskin: "Remember that the most beautiful things in
the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance."
- Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler."
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| This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about
8,000 light-years away, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This Hubble image
reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to be an hourglass with an intricate pattern of
"etchings" in its walls. The results are of great interest because they shed new
light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death
of Sun-like stars. |
- Albert Einstein: "The ideals which have lighted my way, and
time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness,
Beauty, and Truth."
- Michaelangelo: "Beauty is the purgation of
superfluities."
- William Shakespeare: "To me, fair friend, you never can be
old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still."
- "Why is it that Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman felt
an enchantment that would last for a lifetime when he heard his high-school physics
teacher say: Light always follows the path of the beautiful?"
Hyatt
Carter
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