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Observatory Quotes by Simon Newcomb
- 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…
- 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…
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- My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Unknown Author
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — Unknown Author
- By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — 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?… — 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… — Simon Newcomb
- OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce