“ Magellan’s sudden identification of millions of land forms fomented a crisis in nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union responded with an all-female naming scheme that evoked a goddess or g… Dava Sobel
“ Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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