One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I…

Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers…

— Brian Weiss

I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I…

— Nancy Roman

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work…

— James Van Allen

John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma…

— Jay Leno

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

— Saul Perlmutter

For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which…

— Catherine Wilson

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

— John Boyne

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy…

— Allan McLeod Cormack