Some astronomers try to cheer us up in the moments of depression by assuring us that one fine day the sun will explode, and in the twinkling of an eye we shall all be turned into gas. I do not know whether this is going to happen, nor when it will happen if it does […]
Astronauts - Astronomy Quotes
Astronomer: To an astronomer, man is nothing but an infinitesimal dot in an infinite universe. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: An interesting point of view, but you seem to forget that your infinitesimal dot of a man is still the astronomer.
One thing I learned at home, on those nights at home, I learned how to use a telescope and how to find objects in the sky. You don’t do that by going to a bar and drinking beer. (discoverer of Pluto)
The war became more and more bitter. The Dominican Father Caccini preached a sermon from the text, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?” and this wretched pun upon the great astronomer’s name ushered in sharper weapons; for, before Caccini ended, he insisted that “geometry is of the devil,” and that […]
Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation! (as he joined fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk.)
Observatory, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
“Where are we going?” (Bishop Aringarosa) had demanded of his driver. “Alban Hills,” the man replied. “Your meeting is at Castel Gandolfo.” The Pope’s summer residence? Aringarosa had never been, nor had he ever desired to see it. In addition to being the Pope’s summer vacation home, the sixteenth-century citadel housed the Specula Vaticana – […]
The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.
What we need is a big telescope in every village and hamlet and some bloke there with that fire in his eye who can show something of the glory the world sails in. (inventor of the Dobsonian telescope and “guiding light” to amateur astronomers)
In this matter, it behooves all those who wish to make such observations to be forewarned. For it is necessary first that they prepare a most accurate glass that shows objects brightly, distinctly, and not veiled by any obscurity; and second that it multiply them at least four hundred times and show them twenty times […]
