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
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe 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
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted… — Christopher Lloyd 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 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
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude 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
“one does not need experiments to do science. While this claim may sound strange and counterintuitive at first, a moment's reflection will… — Massimo Pigliucci 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
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
“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
“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
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken 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
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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