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.
As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
Astronomy is written for astronomers
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not 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
An undevout astronomer is mad.
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.