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I know. You'll say, "I'm going to go along with the damned clock. That's entirely arbitrary, and the rest of the universe is not going along with your damned clock anyway.

— 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.

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

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