Brunner-mond Quote by Francis Arthur Freeth

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

— Francis Arthur Freeth

“Some professional astronomy telescopes are associated with unusual illnesses and deaths in their workers.”

— Steven Magee

“Most professional astronomers that I know are frequent fliers.”

— Steven Magee

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is…

— Allen Tate

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

“I was the manager of the world's largest telescopes.”

— Steven Magee

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

— Edmond Halley

“I research what astronomers do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“(LBT)—currently one of the world’s most advanced optical telescopes—where, among other”

— Cris Putnam

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan

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

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin