[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.