Astronomers Quotes

Astronomers Quote of the day

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.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

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

[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.'

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

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?

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

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.

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

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.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

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.'

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

An undevout astronomer is mad.

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.

While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.

The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!

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'.