Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant… — Richard Dixon Oldham 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
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
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — Frederic Chopin 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
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most… — Robert Jastrow 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
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a… — Nancy Roman 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
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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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
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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
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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
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
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
Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set,… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
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To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
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Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur… — Joseph McCabe 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
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
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Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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