16 Quotes by Richard Ellis

Although we are looking back to when the universe was only six percent of its present age, this galaxy has already built up a mass in stars eight times that of the Milky Way.

They're not seeing individual objects. They're looking at ripples in the background radiation.

It seems a little thin. I average filing around 400 to 450 pages on habeas writs, not including exhibits, which can be another 1,000 pages.

I'm in the sheep business, not the barn business.

For some people, the pledge is a statement that the United States is a chosen nation, that the United States is a nation under God, that it is God's chosen nation,

This is all remarkable. Our humble telescopes are determining the fate of the universe.

The genuine excitement in this work lies in the practicality of detecting the stellar radiation from hitherto uncharted distances corresponding to a time when the universe was barely 100 million years old, ... Not bad for an 85-centimetre telescope!