Astronomers Quote by Miles Kington Download Open image “Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.” — Miles Kington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomers Astronomy Burglars Jazz Jazz music Jazz musician Jazz musicians Music Musician Night Work
Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in… — Jack Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
