Open Cluster Stars

Famous quotes containing the words open, cluster and/or stars:

    A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)