Astronomy Quote by Carl Sagan

Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“A radio telescope works more like a light meter than a camera. You point it toward some fairly broad region of the sky, and…

— Carl Sagan

“We’d be outraged if our government invested in expensive telescopes for the sole purpose of searching for orbiting teapots. But we can appreciate the…

— Richard Dawkins

“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was…

— Martin Ryle

Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where…

— Paul Davies

There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.

— Kathleen Rubins

“There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and…

— Bruce Katz

In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter,…

— Geoffrey Marcy

“Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day…

— Hari Kunzru

The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an…

— Sergei Korolev

“they scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space.…

— Seth Shostak