Quotes by : John Pipkin

The quiet brings to mind the multitude of men and women living out their days in solitude—each convinced....

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.....

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

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....

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

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,....

Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall....

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