Discovery Quote by Camille Flammarion

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of…

— Johann Gottfried Galle

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet…

— John Couch Adams

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the…

— W. W. Rouse Ball

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his…

— Mark Twain

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in…

— Urbain Le Verrier

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone.…

— Fritz Leiber

“Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,”…

— J.K. Rowling