Astronomers Quote by William Herschel Download Open image “The undevout astronomer must be mad.” — William Herschel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomers Mad
“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 Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive. — Matt Ruff Copy Share Image
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds. — William Herschel Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt,… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants. — William Herschel Copy Share Image
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
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