“I will use science to shut down the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease became my priority in my late forties as my health was drastically… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprised me during my employment with urine tests for illegal drugs.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Astronomy needs to clean up its act and the first step in the right direction is the demolition of the biologically toxic… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprise drug tested me during my employment.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronomical observatory where… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I saw a guy faint at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he stepped out from the tour group and said to me… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The collapse of the Aricebo Observatory was a good example of what happens to poorly maintained industrial facilities.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
