Altitude Quote by Steven Magee

“Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness…

— Steven Magee

“I noticed that I developed excessive daytime sleepiness after I started working extreme night shifts on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea…

— Steven Magee

“One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night…

— Steven Magee

So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during…

— Shelby Harris

“It is important to remember when interacting with astronomers that you are dealing with people that are commonly showing the long term adverse effects…

— Steven Magee

A 12-hour shift is physically exhausting. You give multiple shots, wearing heavy jewellry and make-up - and end up with dark circles, acne, and…

— Nia Sharma

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

“Only whack jobs apply for the night shift”

— Rainbow Rowell

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

— Nicole Krauss

“Reversing the sleep and wake cycles of the human through night shift work is known to cause extensive long term damage in humans.”

— Steven Magee

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make…

— John Knowles

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes…

— Woodrow Wilson