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• Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works… — Arthur Eddington
• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman
• The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel
• For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Unknown Author
• Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant… — Unknown Author
• The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — Unknown Author
• I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup
• Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer — Brian May
• The undevout astronomer must be mad. — William Herschel
• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — Frederic Chopin
• An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe
• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't… — Frank Drake

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