Accidental Quote by Honor Harger

In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit…

— Grote Reber

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

— Martin Ryle

“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was…

— Martin Ryle

Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my…

— Antony Hewish

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..

— William Cecil Dampier

“they scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets”

— Gabriel García Márquez