Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers. — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer? — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.” — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you… — Paul Virilio 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no… — Adlai Stevenson I 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
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
“I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May 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