John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter Quotes

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.