The Glass Universe Quotes

“To have done work which is widely recognized, to have gained the sincere esteem of many and the real love of even a few, surely these are sufficient reasons to look on life as well worth the living.”
― Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

“Abbott Lowell would have appointed his own “distinguished brother,” the Mars expert,”
― Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

“On June 8, 1918, shortly before she left the observatory to take up war work, a new nova erupted in the constellation Aquila, outshining all but the very brightest stars for several weeks.”
― Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

“rigged a block and tackle from the roof of the observatory’s west wing to a window of the new repository.”
― Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

“with searching glass I scanned / Those far deep lanes of night, / Where stars well up through endlessness, / In springs of living light.”
― Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars