Affirmative Quote by William Huggins

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the…

— Richard P. Feynman

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost…

— Carl Sagan

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

— Annie Jump Cannon

“In short, were it not for our ability to analyze spectra, we would know next to nothing about what goes on in the universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Further analysis of the Sun’s spectrum revealed the signature of an element that had no known counterpart on Earth. Being of the Sun, the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is…

— Garik Israelian

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

— Garik Israelian

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of…

— William Huggins

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on…

— C. V. Raman

“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905…

— Louis de Broglie