Observatory Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard… — Dudley R. Herschbach
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
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram… — Jonathan Sarfati
Every wise man lives in an observatory. — Augustus William Hare
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the… — Simon Newcomb
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build… — Tim Ferriss
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. — Henry David Thoreau
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly… — Jill Tarter
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin… — Simon Newcomb

Who Wrote These Observatory Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Observatory Quotes as follows: