Main Sequence Stars

Famous quotes containing the words main, sequence and/or stars:

“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism—despotism during the campaign—is indispensable.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)