12 Quotes About Astronomer

Astronomy is a fascinating and fascinating field that has been studied and researched for centuries. The secrets, amazing discoveries, and history of astronomy is boundless. From the stars above to the planets circling them, there’s no end to what we can learn from astronomy. Check out this collection of astronomy quotes as inspiration as you continue your research and learning about all things astronomical.

When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your...
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When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes. Anthony T. Hincks
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
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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 earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. Tycho Brahe
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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 corporategovernment policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic environment is one of these disastrouspolicies that must stop. Steven Magee
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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 not taken me
very far from that original desire
to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls
of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars. Troy Jollimore
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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 Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. Brad Leithauser
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I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist. Unknown
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Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff. Steven Magee
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Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it Steven Magee
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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 resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine. I observed further with suitable refractors for the discovery of comets, and this is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the catalog. After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length]. Charles Messier
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A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness Steven Magee