Naval Observatory Master

Famous quotes containing the words naval, observatory and/or master:

    “It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)