Astronomers Quote by Edward Young

An undevout astronomer is mad.

— Edward Young

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

— William Herschel

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

— John Boyne

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

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

— Saul Perlmutter

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer