Astronomers Quote by Dennis Overbye Download Open image “Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.” — Dennis Overbye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomers Rain Science Sight Standing Standing in the rain
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers. — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game. — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
