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
“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
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
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that?… — 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
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
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
“A year ago astronomers across the Discworld had been puzzled to see the stars gently wheel across the sky as the world-turtle… — Terry Pratchett 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
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on… — Nathan Myhrvold 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
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
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
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called… — Jay Leno 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
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
[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
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
“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
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
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo 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
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I… — Sherman Alexie 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
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how… — Eileen Pollack 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
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we… — Murray Gell-Mann 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
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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