Zitat des Tages über Astronom / Astronomer:
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
The undevout astronomer must be mad.
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
The dark areas, the 'mare' plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.