John Dobson in The Media
Dobson is one of the speakers in Universe: The Cosmology Quest, a documentary supporting non-standard cosmological points of view. His life and theories are also the subject of the 2005 documentary A Sidewalk Astronomer. He was also featured in the PBS series The Astronomers, and has appeared twice on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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“Dead of a dark thing, John Holmes, you’ve been lost
in the college chapel, mourned as father and teacher,
mourned with piety and grace under the University Cross.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
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