Altitude Quote by Steven Magee

“It was a mistake to pursue a career in high altitude professional astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”

— Steven Magee

“If you want to know what biological incompetence looks like, just take a look at high altitude professional astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“High altitude professional astronomy is a hypoxic job.”

— Steven Magee

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the…

— Steven Magee

“As I watched my mental and physical health rapidly decline during a decade of working in high altitude professional astronomy, I became suspicious about…

— Steven Magee

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

— Steven Magee

“I spent a decade of my life mal-acclimatizing to high altitude mountains in professional astronomy and now I am disabled with a wide variety…

— Steven Magee

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance…

— Karl Marx

“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.”

— Thomas Hardy

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he…

— Bill Vaughan