Astronomer Quote by Edward Young

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

— William Herschel

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

“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

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

— Edward Young

“Do not be a professional astronomer’s altidiot.”

— Steven Magee

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

— John Boyne

“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

“The universe is mad, slightly mad.”

— Allen Ginsberg

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

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

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