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
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science” — 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
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.” — Steven Magee 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
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
“The astonished astronomer who made the discovery was left with one all-important question: is it more appropriate to e-mail, call, or text… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. In 1610, Galileo observed sunspots on its surface, proving that the Sun was rotating… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
“Deandre gazed at her like she was the stars, and he was a mere astronomer, searching her face for the constellations, admiring… — Aishabella Sheikh Copy Share Image
As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the… — 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
“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
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
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
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy 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
“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
“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
“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
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams 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
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image