“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math. — Juliana Harkavy 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
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May Copy Share Image
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
“When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers” — 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
“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
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized… — 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 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 Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams 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
“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
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen. — Ma Huateng Copy Share Image
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science” — Steven Magee 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
![“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I…” quote by Sarah Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/sarah-williams-75927_astronomy_the-old-astronomer-to-his-pupil-reach-me_1586047.jpg)
