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- There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet. -- Robert Crais
- As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project. -- Jill Tarter
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -- Henry Ward Beecher
- Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. -- Henry David Thoreau
- In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. -- Simon Newcomb
- After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain. -- Timothy Ferriss
- If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently. -- Timothy Ferriss
- The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme. -- Simon Newcomb
- Every wise man lives in an observatory. -- Augustus William Hare
- OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. -- Ambrose Bierce
- The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain. -- Timothy Ferriss
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