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
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“An Astronomer is to tell where the planets are. Then an Astrologer is to interpret what the location of those planets mean… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What… — James Keller Copy Share Image
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the… — Troy Jollimore Copy Share Image
“Uncle Yuichi: Something's moving up there? Hmm... I don't see anything. It was probably a satelite. Punpun (with gums flapping): Could I… — Inio Asano Copy Share Image
“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus 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
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen. — Ma Huateng Copy Share Image
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers” — Steven Magee 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
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
“This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional… — Steven Magee 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
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you… — Alan Shepard 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
“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.” — Steven Magee 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
“She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the… — Marsha Mehran 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
“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
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“We do not know who realized that there was an element missing but we owe whoever it was a great debt. We… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758,… — Charles Messier 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
“She knew why she had Gerry on her mind, why she was spotting his likeness in the faces of strange little boys.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
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