“It is possible that a man who was mentally and physically sickened by professional astronomers may end up being one of the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am committed to shutting down the toxic Mauna Kea Observatories and this is a serious problem for professional astronomers, given that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the… — Dean Rusk Copy Share Image
We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember when interacting with astronomers that you are dealing with people that are commonly showing the long term… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus... — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
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