Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes 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
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.” — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,… The trouble is, Whitman is talking through… — Isaac Asimov 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
The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled… — William Broad Copy Share Image
Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter,… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
“This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May Copy Share Image
“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
