there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as…

“A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for…

— Philip Pullman

“She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists…,contacts who would help her build her business.”

— Kim Todd

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural…

— Marcel Proust

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to…

— Hal Hellman

“Babbage, Herschel, Jones, and Whewell are a strange breed: the last of the natural philosophers, who engendered, as it were with their dying breath,…

— Laura J. Snyder

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

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

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

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

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 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

“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

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

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

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