Astronomers Quotations

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

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

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

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

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or 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

An undevout astronomer is mad.

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

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

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.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

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