47 Quotes About Astronomer

Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective breathing respirators.

When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.

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.

Never trust a high altitude astronomer.

Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science

Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.