Quotes by : John Pipkin

Is this not the very thing that drives an adventurous man to navigate uncharted oceans, to traverse continents....

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.....

Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal,....

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....

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....

...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of....