Adders Quote by Galileo Galilei

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think…

— Galileo Galilei

“My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the…

— Galileo Galilei

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast…

— Galileo Galilei

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

— Jostein Gaarder

“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.”

— Philip Pullman

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the…

— Jack McDevitt

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.”

— Steven Magee

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes