Doe Quote by Edward Victor Appleton

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate…

— Antony Hewish

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and…

— Kristian Birkeland

“The cavity formed between a planetary body and its ionosphere acts as a natural resonator; most people who lived on Earth were unaware that…

— Nicola Griffith

The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.

— Andrea M. Ghez

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

— Brian Schmidt

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful…

— Jesse Owens

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and…

— KT Tunstall

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

— Edgar Cayce

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most…

— Ernest Lawrence

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data,…

— Abdus Salam

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way…

— Werner Heisenberg