Astronomy Quote by Nancy Roman

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television,…

— Alastair Reynolds

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

— Ma Huateng

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

— Carolyn Porco

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

Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer,…

— Crystal Renn

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

While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started…

— Carolyn Porco

I take the NASA physical every year.

— Jim Lovell

“My interest in astronomy took me to the premier astronomical observatories in the world before I developed occupational diseases and became disabled at age…

— Steven Magee

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

— Edgar Mitchell

Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

— Kathleen Rubins