Secchi Quotes & Sayings

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. — Agnes Smedley

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. — Trent Reznor

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? — Robert J. Sawyer

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. — Paul Graham

The extraordinariness of a man's life does not make him extraordinary, but contrariwise if a man is extraordinary he will make extraordinariness out of a life as humdrum as that of a country curate. — W. Somerset Maugham

Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back. — Karen Marie Moning

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together. — Ejnar Hertzsprung