Age Quote by Nancy Roman

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment…

— Seth Shostak

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had…

— J. August Richards

My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the…

— Dudley R. Herschbach

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

— Carolyn Porco

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking…

— David M. Brown

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

— Richard Dawkins

I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what…

— Carolyn Porco

I remember spending evenings looking at the sky with my dad, who was interested. He was a civil engineer and was interested in science…

— Sandra Faber

I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of…

— Vera Rubin

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up…

— Dimitar Sasselov