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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes:

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin quotes

Ocupation: Astronomer

Life: May 10, 1900 - December 7, 1979

Birthday: May 10

Death: December 7

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Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

source: - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

Topics: Careers, Horizon, Quests, Better Ways

quote there is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding the lightning that releases cecilia payne gaposchkin Quotes

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

Topics: Horizon, Rewards, Achieve

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.

Topics: Emotional, World, Landscape, First Person

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

source: - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

Topics: Understanding, Lightning, Release

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