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William Wilson Morgan quotes

Ocupation: Astronomer

Life: January 3, 1906 - June 21, 1994

Birthday: January 3

Death: June 21

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[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

Topics: Stars, Hard Work, Important

Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

source: - Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.

Topics: People, Dumb, Phenomenology

I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.

Topics: Stars, Father, Science

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