Characteristics Quote by Kenneth Franklin

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

In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the…

— Frank Drake

I'm just guessing, but probably one of the early signs that your radarscope is wearing out is something I call "image fuzz-out." But I've…

— Jack Handey

Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain…

— Richard Hall

“We do not know who realized that there was an element missing but we owe whoever it was a great debt. We can imagine…

— Lee Smolin

Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable…

— Peter Medawar

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of…

— Simon Newcomb

“Wavelength … maybe that was the key. Like radio stations on different frequencies, males and females were broadcasting and receiving on different channels. Some…

— Karin Bishop

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was…

— Chester Brown

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

“A radio telescope works more like a light meter than a camera. You point it toward some fairly broad region of the sky, and…

— Carl Sagan

“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