13 quotes found
“When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes.”
“And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the ...”
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding ofthe rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporategovernmen...”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“But I will confessthat I began as an astronomera likingfor bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,a hand stretched always toward the furthest limitand that my longing for you has not ta...”
“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Va...”
“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.”
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.”
“Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it”
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resem...”
“A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness”
“But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has ...”
