Altitude Quote by Steven Magee

“I research what astronomers do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“It is possible that a man who was mentally and physically sickened by professional astronomers may end up being one of the world’s greatest…

— Steven Magee

“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.”

— Steven Magee

“Do not be a professional astronomer’s altidiot.”

— Steven Magee

“In other words, the rule about great scientific advances is that to make them you have to break the rules. Nobody has ever won…

— Joi Ito

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

“Most professional astronomers that I know are frequent fliers.”

— Steven Magee

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves…

— David Douglass

“the education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, and scientists are just…

— Robert M. Hazen

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock