Astronomers Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

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.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

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

An undevout astronomer is mad.

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

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