Astronomy Quote by Crystal Renn

I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted to be…

— Christopher Lloyd

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television,…

— Alastair Reynolds

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

— Ma Huateng

If I hadn't become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was…

— Amber Valletta

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up…

— Dimitar Sasselov

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

— Philip Emeagwali

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

— Anderson East

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

— Vera Rubin

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I…

— Carolyn Porco

From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.

— Kathleen Rubins

I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I…

— Nancy Roman