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The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus... -- Augustus De Morgan
The undevout astronomer must be mad. -- William Herschel
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer. -- Brian May
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. -- Philip Emeagwali
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer. -- Peter Max
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen. -- Ma Huateng
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it. -- Brian Schmidt
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas. -- Claude Nicollier
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school. -- Natalie Babbitt
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer. -- Dimitar Sasselov
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans are necessarily the culmination of the evolutionary tree. No astronomer could believe this. -- Martin Rees
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed. -- Martin Rees
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. -- Charles Spurgeon
As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole. -- Andrea M. Ghez
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. -- Alan Shepard
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics. -- Nancy Roman
When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.' -- Daniel Hope
An undevout astronomer is mad. -- Edward Young
Never trust a high altitude astronomer. -- Steven Magee
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer -- Brian May
As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky. -- Robert Frost
If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer. -- Peter Max
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. -- Brian May
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services -- Tycho Brahe
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! -- Edward Young
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. -- Frederic Chopin
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer? -- Johannes Kepler
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. -- John Boyne
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . -- Aristophanes
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. -- Richard A. Proctor
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is. -- Ted Hughes
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. -- Frederic Chopin
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. -- Sherman Alexie
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer. -- John William Draper
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. -- James Truslow Adams
The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet. -- Paul Virilio
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better -- Isaac Asimov
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer. -- Dimitar Sasselov

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