Astronomers Quote by Edward Young Download Open image “An undevout astronomer is mad.” — Edward Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomers Mad
“It is possible that a man who was mentally and physically sickened by professional astronomers may end up being one of the world’s greatest… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young 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
“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being… — Benjamin Silliman Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe… — James Pollard Espy Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young 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