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quotes[1] = "What is  inconceivable about the universe is that it should be at all conceivable. (Albert Einstein)"
quotes[2] = "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced  by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams)"
quotes[3] = "A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one.  He would have to ask an engineer to do that. (Gordon L. Glegg)"
quotes[4] = "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. (Woody Allen)"
quotes[5] = "The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe. (Peter DeVries)"
quotes[6] = "The universe is simple; it's the explanation that's complex."
quotes[7] = "Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun."
quotes[8] = "Nothing is faster than the speed of light. To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on."
quotes[9] = "The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. -- Cicero."
quotes[10] = "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Sir Fred Hoyle"
quotes[11] = "It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.Woody Allen"
quotes[12] = "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein"
quotes[13] = "The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley"
quotes[14] = "Time wastes our souls and our wits; But we waste time, so we are quits. Anonymous"
quotes[15] = "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. Mark Twain"
quotes[16] = "Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. Albert Einstein"
quotes[17] = "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius"
quotes[18] = "I think there's a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM (1943)"
quotes[19] = "Two things inspire me to awe - the starry heavens above and the moral universe within. Albert Einstein"
quotes[20] = "With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. Ransom K. Ferm"
quotes[21] = "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.Wernher von Braun"
quotes[22] = "Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet. Robin Williams"
quotes[23] = "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln"
quotes[24] = "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution;The sky's so full of light pollution. David H. Levy"
quotes[25] = "I love to revel in philosophical matters - especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and I have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major. Mark Twain"
quotes[26] = "Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.Mark Twain, Following the Equator"
quotes[27] = "One thing I learned at home, on those nights at home, I learned how to use a telescope and how to find objects in the sky. You don't do that by going to a bar and drinking beer. Clyde Tombaugh"
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