#astronomers

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

— Matthew Henry

#make #saints #scriptures #us #were

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

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

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #astronomers #fundamental #fundamental questions #ought

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? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#around #astronomers #clouds #disappointed #disappointment

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#asleep #astronomers #being #given #implications