Afternoon Quote by Carl Sagan

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

— Nigel Calder

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel…

— Ray Bradbury

“But we would do well to meditate daily, rather as the religious do on their God, on the 9.5 trillion kilometres which comprise a…

— Alain de Botton

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

“How do you study something that cannot possibly get your clothes dirty? How do astrophysicists know anything about either the universe or its contents…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan

“In a trillion or so years, anyone alive in our own galaxy may know nothing of other galaxies. Our observable universe will merely comprise…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're…

— Eugenie Scott

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it…

— Dave Barry

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

— Fritz Zwicky

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

— Simon Newcomb

“A telescope is a kind of time machine...If you see the Andromeda Galaxy in the night sky, you are looking two million years into…

— Larry Scheckel