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Quotes of the Day for 29 October 2004 - Stars

Edmund Halley was born at Hagereston, Middlesex, England on this day in 1656. He was a scientist of wide interest, what was then called a "natural philosopher." He worked with Newton on gravity, was the first to identify the tradewinds, contributed to the understanding of tides, published on the relationship of the barometer to weather, and pursued other significant work. But mostly we remember him as an astronomer, the first to identify and predict the orbit of a comet. Halley watched the stars, I'll pick some quotes on same.

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.
     - Caballero

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
     - Earl Riney

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
     - Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878 - 1969

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
     - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
     - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
     - Samuel Grafton

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