The History Of Astronomy Is A History

There We Measure Shadows, And We Search Among Ghostly Errors Of Measurement For Landmarks That Are Scarcely More Substantial.

Equipped With Our Five Senses - Along With Telescopes And Microscopes And Mass Spectrometers And Seismographs And Magnetometers And Particle Accelerators And Detectors Sensitive To The Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum - We Explore The Universe Around Us And Call The Adventure Science.

Observations Always Involve Theory.

I Knew That Even If I Were Second Or Third Rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.

Astronomy Is Something Like The Ministry. No One Should Go Into It Without A Call. I Got That Unmistakable Call, And I Know That Even If I Were Second-rate Or Third-rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.