At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it. — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
