Astronomers Quotes - Page 2

• La astronomía obliga al alma a mirar hacia arriba y nos conduce de este mundo a otro.

  Plato

  Filosofía, Ciencia, Alma

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• A los primeros geólogos debió parecerles casi tan improbable que las leyes de los terremotos arrojaran algún día luz sobre el origen de las montañas, como a los primeros astrónomos que la caída de una manzana ayudara a explicar los movimientos de la Luna.

  Charles Lyell

  Fall, Science, Moon

  Charles Lyell (1833). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.5

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• Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed, so the seismograph, recording the unfelt motion of distant earthquakes, enables us to see into the earth and determine its nature with as great a certainty, up to a certain point, as if we could drive a tunnel through it and take samples of the matter passed through.

  Richard Dixon Oldham

  Nature, Stars, Science

  "Geophysical Framework of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan" by M. N. Qureshy, CRC Press, (p. 150), 2005.

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• Si quieres hacer una tarta de manzana desde cero, primero tienes que inventar el universo.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspiración, Naturaleza, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). "Cosmos", p.242, Ballantine Books

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• Los astrónomos han descubierto un planeta que tiene el doble de tamaño que la Tierra y está hecho de diamantes. El Presidente Obama dice que el planeta puede estar habitado por extraterrestres que no pagan lo que les corresponde.

  Jay Leno

  President, Size, Earth

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• A veces pienso que el universo es una máquina diseñada para el asombro perpetuo de los astrónomos.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Machines, Astonishment

  "Mysterious World (Strange Skies)". TV Series, November 18, 1980.

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• Puesto que los astrónomos somos sacerdotes del Dios supremo en lo que respecta al libro de la naturaleza, nos corresponde pensar, no en la gloria de nuestras mentes, sino, por encima de todo, en la gloria de Dios.

  Johannes Kepler

  Book, Thoughtful, Mind

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• I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

  John C. Lilly

  Talking, Office, People

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• Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

  Dennis Overbye

  Rain, Sight, Standing

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• The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Apollo

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Art, Stars, Hands

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,

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• Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.

  Arpa de Halton

  Stars, Science, Clouds

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• No veo cómo los astrónomos pueden evitar sentirse exquisitamente insignificantes, pues cada nueva página del Libro de los Cielos que abren les revela más y más que el mundo del que estamos tan orgullosos es para el universo de globos caracoleantes como lo es un mosquito para las bandadas y manadas aladas y unguladas que oscurecen el aire y pueblan las llanuras y los bosques de toda la tierra. Si mataras al mosquito, ¿lo echarías de menos? En verdad, ¿Qué es el Hombre, para que sea considerado de Dios?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Air

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• God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

  Johannes Kepler

  Mean, Animal, Astrology

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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• Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Life, Said, Labor

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• No hay nada tan onírico y poético, nada tan radical, subversivo y psicodélico como las matemáticas. Son tan alucinantes como la cosmología o la física (los matemáticos concibieron los agujeros negros mucho antes de que los astrónomos los descubrieran) y permiten una mayor libertad de expresión que la poesía, el arte o la música (que dependen en gran medida de las propiedades del universo físico). Las matemáticas son la más pura de las artes, además de la más incomprendida.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Expression, Long

  "A Mathematician’s Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.

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• Cuarenta años como astrónomo no han aplacado mi entusiasmo por tumbarme al anochecer a contemplar las estrellas. No es sólo la belleza del cielo nocturno lo que me emociona. Es la sensación que tengo de que algunos de esos puntos de luz son las estrellas del hogar de seres no tan diferentes de nosotros, con sus preocupaciones cotidianas y todo, que miran a través del espacio con asombro, igual que nosotros.

  Frank Drake

  Estrellas, Mentir, Hogar

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• Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury’s trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.

  Brian Greene

  Heart, Long, Support

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos”, p.16, Vintage

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• An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

  Tycho Brahe

  Ignorant, Expected, Statesmen

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• Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

  James Truslow Adams

  Mother Daughter, Stars, Teenage

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• Los astrónomos dijeron: 'Dadnos materia y un poco de movimiento y construiremos el universo. No basta con que tengamos materia, también debemos tener un impulso único, un empujón para lanzar la masa y generar la armonía de las fuerzas centrífuga y centrípeta'. ... Las consecuencias del acto no tienen fin. Ese famoso empujón aborigen se propaga a través de todas las bolas del sistema, y a través de cada átomo de cada bola.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ciencia, Debería, Dar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.1491, Delphi Classics.

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• What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation.

  Robert Jastrow

  Atheism, Answers, World

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• I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are articulate enough to tell their stories and sincere enough to make depositions before notaries public. Even scientists concede that these folk saw something.

  Morris K. Jessup

  Clouds, People, Majority

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• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

  Alan Watts

  Sunset, Moon, Night

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.116, Vintage

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• The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Song, Drinking, Astronomy

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