“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
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
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May 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 wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
“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
“Mauna Kea astronomers need to engage in a convenient ignorance regarding the biological toxicity of the observatories to obtain their tainted astronomical… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as… — Steven Magee 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
“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas… — Steven Magee 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
“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
I'm an amateur astronomer, and I practice that hobby a lot. And I'm fascinated by hard science. Hard science is something for… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
“When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site… — Steven Magee 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers” — Steven Magee 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
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
“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
“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
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
“if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house… — nagarjuna 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
“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
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
“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as… — Steven Magee 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
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
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't… — Frank Drake 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
