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The Importance of Observations in Astronomy

"A man who showed real genius might make a great astronomer instead of a poor teacher," writes Carl Sagan. "The expenses of such an observatory are very large and it has no pecuniary return since astronomical products are not saleable", he adds. A single observatory could easily do double the work that could be accomplished if its resources were divided between two of half the size, says Sagan. 'It is like a man swimming upstream, he may struggle desperately and yet make no progress,' Sixty-six years ago this month The New York Review of Books published their first ever Astronomer's Notebook in response to President George H.W. Bush's speech on

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