"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer."

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"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined."

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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."

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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."

E. O. Wilson, American Scientist

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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."

George Phillips Bond, American Scientist

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"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."

Murray Gell Mann, American Physicist

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"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."

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"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."

"I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined."

"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."

"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."

"I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino."

"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."

"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."

"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."

"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."

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"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."

"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured."

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"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do."

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."