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The Big Bang people wanted to get everything out of nothing. They want us to believe that nothing made everything out of nothing.

— 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.

John Dobson at the 2005 NOVAC Star Gaze (2005)

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Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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