Astronomers Quotes

84 Astronomers quotes by 71 unique authors

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have… — Mae Jemison
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where… — Honor Harger
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but… — Isaac Asimov
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across… — Wernher von Braun
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts… — Claude Nicollier
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey… — Hugh Ross
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a… — Isaac D'Israeli
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. — Dennis Overbye
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. — Matthew Henry
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale.… — Nathan Myhrvold
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in… — Alan Shepard
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an… — Sherman Alexie
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. — Woody Allen
Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet?… — Bertrand Russell
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. — Frederic Chopin
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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