1,841 Quotes About Astronomy

The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.

Leaving professional astronomy was one of my better decisions.

I went to the doctors to get better, instead they made me sicker.

I am more often wrong than right.

I got far more than I expected when I worked in high altitude astronomy.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

Love is only one fine star away.

The long term health complications from COVID-19 are remarkably similar to what is being seen in long term high altitude workers.