Astronomy Quotes
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.
A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them
The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
I have a love for astronomy; Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.
People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.
Our image is here and will for ever stay, and there is comfort in knowing that the memory of our lives will always be there, traveling among the stars.
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.
Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage.
One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable.
Research suggests that sea level adapted humans that work at the very high altitude 13, 796 feet summit of Mauna Kea may eventually develop sleep apnea and fatigue from the low oxygen environment.
The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.
People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.
Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?
If you still believe that aliens would travel hundreds of light years to carve temporary graffiti in our wheat, then your imagination is one of the seven wonders of the world, and should be bronzed.
During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.
At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.
High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.
Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.
The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.
Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.
It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.
Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.
It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
It would appear that the blue sky is actually produced by the solar wind and solar radiation exciting air molecules to emit light, just like a neon lamp!
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.
