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“For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato, “The Republic”

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“Whether for this, or for some better reason, the founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one of the four branches of advanced education; and, in this respect, it is only just...” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

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