The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke 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
“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember when interacting with astronomers that you are dealing with people that are commonly showing the long term… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus... — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
“I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had… — Halton Arp 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
“When I was a child, a teacher once said that there existed 195 countries in the world. Astronomers lay claim to there… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
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