Quotes by : John Pipkin

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple.....

As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows....

Sometimes he counts himself to sleep by imagining the miles between stars like the succession of footsteps....

What has been his cause for searching the heavens day and night, for testing the limit of his reach hour....

Her calculations have always held the utmost accuracy, but mathematics alone will not be enough to guide....

Time lost to pointless delay can never be regained. It is the most reprehensible kind of theft. Why was....

The heavens are too immense, too beautiful and varied, to fit into the mind of any one deity; the murmured....

He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous....

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a....