Main Sequence Stars

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

“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“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)

“Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 3:9.