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A park ranger once questioned the appropriateness of the telescopes, saying, "The sky is not a part of the park," to which Dobson replied, "No, but the park is part of the sky."

— John Dobson

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A Dobsonian telescope is just a pile of stuff.

The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, it's not how well made it is, it's how many people less fortunate than you got to look through it.

If the momentum approaches zero, our uncertainty in the momentum approaches zero.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

The spacetime separation between here-now and there-then is objective.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

But how could the ether be sufficiently rigid to transmit the vibrations at the speed of light and yet let the planets pass through it?

Photons? (1984)

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