Quotes about Astronomy

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Policemen are often confronted with situations which baffle them at first. A certain crime scene may seem meaningless, b — Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares
At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debi — Steven Magee
During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dio — Steven Magee
We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a mode — Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at th — Pippa Goldschmidt, The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space
At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental fu — Steven Magee
After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a hole in my heart, er — Steven Magee, Health Forensics
The amount of people I met that had heart problems surprised me in high altitude astronomy. I had not seen it in other f — Steven Magee
The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind o — Hermann Weyl
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm — Tycho Brahe
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstratio — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness. — Steven Magee
Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into — Steven Magee
Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from you — Steven Magee
I study Astronomy because it is the loftiest form of science available. It is the highest possible reaches that we can g — C. JoyBell C.
The quiet brings to mind the multitude of men and women living out their days in solitude—each convinced that their fear — John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal, and the fog, oh, — John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
Sometimes he counts himself to sleep by imagining the miles between stars like the succession of footsteps cleaving him — John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predi — John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the — John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter