Quotes by : John Pipkin

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

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.....

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

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....

But if watching the sky is to be his duty, how should he begin? Now and then he has spotted one of the....

So we will cover every possibility. We will take turns at the telescope. I will keep watch in the day,....

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....