Astronomers Quote by Tycho Brahe

No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get…

— Alan Stern

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation…

— Adlai Stevenson I

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies…

— Jacob Bronowski

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

— John Boyne

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

— Brian May

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fact that an astronomer knows so little about the inherent uncertainties in different scientific disciplines suggests to me that our current crop of…

— Roy Spencer

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

— William Herschel

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles