Astronomers Quote by William Herschel

“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances…

— François Jacob

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and…

— Horace Mann

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

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

— Edward Tufte

“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

Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must…

— Viktor Schauberger

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided…

— Peter Medawar

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of…

— Frederick Lenz

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on…

— Nadar

“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

“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The…

— Richard Holmes