quotes about Astronomers
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
-- Brian May -
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
-- Dennis Overbye -
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.
-- Fritz Zwicky -
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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 -
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
-- Peter Max -
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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
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. ProctorSource : Richard A. Proctor (1872). “Essays on astronomy: a series of papers on planets and meteors, the sun and sun-surrounding space, stars and star cloudets, and a dissertation on the approaching transits of venus : preceded by a scetch of the life and work of Sir John Herschel”, p.1
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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
-- Robert Frost -
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Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators
-- Saul Perlmutter -
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
-- Tycho Brahe -
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 -