#astronomer

The undevout astronomer must be mad. ↗

— William Herschel

#mad #must

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#astronomer #become #child #dream #efforts

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#become #i #mathematician #physicist #wanted

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#make #saints #scriptures #us #were

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #because #believe #contribute #fame

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. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#before #collision #here #i #just

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

— Brian May

#astronomy #fun #more #much #you

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #astronomers #fundamental #fundamental questions #ought

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

#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope

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

#inspirational #self #stars #the-origin-of-things #inspirational