Astronomy Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl…

— Honor Harger

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

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

— Frank Knight

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

At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources.…

— Kenneth Franklin

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

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

— Lord Kelvin

It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making…

— Aubrey de Grey

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

“The field of astronomy is biologically toxic in many areas and may result in heavy metals poisoning, industrial gas injuries, chemical poisoning, altitude diseases,…

— Steven Magee

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time…

— Sandra Faber