Astronomers Quotes

84 Astronomers quotes by 71 unique authors

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics… — Brian Greene
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty… — Frank Drake
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in… — Murray Gell-Mann
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never… — Freeman Dyson
If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer. — Peter Max
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. — Nigel Calder
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. — Fritz Zwicky
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do… — James Keller
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans.… — Viswanathan Anand
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated… — Joao Magueijo
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. — Philip Emeagwali
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I… — Margaret Geller
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May
UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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