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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… — 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,… — Alan Watts
- The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works… — Arthur Eddington
- Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude
- [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less… — 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… — Walt Whitman
- A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled… — William Broad
- 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