Astronomers Quote by Augustus De Morgan

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost…

— Carl Sagan

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and…

— Anonymous

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

“A Scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.”

— Gordon L. Glegg

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

— Edward Young

Over and over in the history of astronomy, a new instrument finds things we never expected to see.

— Rainer Weiss

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

— Max Planck

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

— William Herschel