Astronomers Quotes

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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can… — Richard Brautigan
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in… — Alan Watts
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not… — Albert Claude
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The… — William Broad
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to… — William Herschel
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any… — Andreas Osiander
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Richard Dixon Oldham
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes… — James Pollard Espy
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all… — Robert Jastrow
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep… — Dean Rusk
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are… — Morris K. Jessup
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may be inhabited by… — Jay Leno
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer — Brian May
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the… — Johannes Kepler

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