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If the amateurs don't get their telescopes out for the public, nobody will! The professionals make telescopes for the professionals. We sidewalk astronomers make telescopes for the rest of you.

— John Dobson John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

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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.

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."

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.

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