Mysterious Quote by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“Of all the material objects we know, quasars are closest to lucretius's javelin. Quasars are galaxies in early stage of evolution. The light that…

— Henning Genz

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the…

— Walker Percy

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation,…

— William John Wills

I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can…

— Werner Heisenberg

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

— Wislawa Szymborska

We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for…

— Anonymous

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

“Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos—novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes—you are beyond doubt the…

— Walker Percy

For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and…

— Don Berliner