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Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. -- Miles Kington
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. -- Matthew Henry
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? -- Richard Brautigan
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. -- Dean Rusk
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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 didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer. -- Peter Max
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators -- Saul Perlmutter
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators. -- Saul Perlmutter
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. -- Fritz Zwicky
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. -- Nigel Calder
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus... -- Augustus De Morgan
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. -- Woody Allen
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. -- Woody Allen
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 black hole.' -- Jay Leno
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.' -- W. W. Rouse Ball
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. -- Simon Newcomb
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
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may be inhabited by aliens not paying their fair share. -- Jay Leno
The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'. -- Steven Magee
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars -- Murray Gell-Mann
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late! -- Wernher von Braun
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them. -- Albert Claude
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde. -- Robert Recorde
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion. -- 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
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the motions of the moon. -- Charles Lyell
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. -- Joseph McCabe
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. -- Allan McLeod Cormack
The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers. -- Andrea M. Ghez
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. -- Margaret Wertheim
Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability. -- Seth Shostak
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction. -- Seth Shostak
First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize. -- Richard Preston
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy. -- Seth Shostak
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't. -- Seth Shostak
Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table. -- Seth Shostak
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase. -- Saint-John Perse
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence. -- Thomas Mallon
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques. -- Honor Harger
Astronomy is written for astronomers -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. -- H. L. Mencken
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. -- Dennis Overbye
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. -- Arthur C. Clarke
We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous. -- Vera Rubin
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons. -- Edna Ferber
Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing. -- Alan Stern
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite "?telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox. -- Freeman Dyson
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ?¦ like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past. -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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