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Astronomy Quotes

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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."
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"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
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"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer."
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"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."
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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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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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"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."
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"I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined."
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"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
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"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."
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