"Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads……" — Henry Ward Beecher

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If… — Richard Brautigan
• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of… — Alan Watts
• The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the… — Arthur Eddington
• Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects… — Albert Claude
• [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ...… — Walt Whitman
• A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists… — William Broad
• The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only… — William Herschel
• For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them.… — Unknown Author
• Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of… — Unknown Author
• The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star… — Unknown Author

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