Cameras Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I…

— Clyde Tombaugh

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

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

— Carolyn Porco

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

I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes…

— Robin Ince

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was…

— Carrie Nugent

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I'm an amateur astronomer, and I practice that hobby a lot. And I'm fascinated by hard science. Hard science is something for me that's…

— Tim Russ

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I…

— David Grinspoon

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I…

— Carolyn Porco

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

— Ma Huateng