For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that?… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,… The trouble is, Whitman is talking through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“A year ago astronomers across the Discworld had been puzzled to see the stars gently wheel across the sky as the world-turtle… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter,… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
“one does not need experiments to do science. While this claim may sound strange and counterintuitive at first, a moment's reflection will… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
