Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent 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
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
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant… — Richard Dixon Oldham Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene 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
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled… — William Broad Copy Share Image
Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did… — Natalie Angier 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
“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
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
“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
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
“When I was a child, a teacher once said that there existed 195 countries in the world. Astronomers lay claim to there… — Agnes Chew 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
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
