Astrophysicists Quotes

#1. Though poets might prefer a more evocative comparison, astrophysicists liken the sun to a nuclear fusion reactor.

Eric W. Sanderson

#2. Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

Albert Claude

#3. A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

#4. Horselover Fat continued his insidious, long decline into misery and illness, the sort of chaos that astrophysicists say is the fate in store for the whole universe.

Philip K. Dick

#5. Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Raymond Loewy

#6. One of the most illustrious astrophysicists in the world had not only reviewed my son's theory but had validated it. That, I can tell you, was a chicken soup moment in a class all its own.

Kristine Barnett

#7. Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova.

Alan Dean Foster

#8. A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William Broad

#9. Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

William J. Clinton

#10. For instance, he would often gate-crash university parties, get badly drunk and start making fun of any astrophysicists he could find till he got thrown out.

Douglas Adams

#11. You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.

Sheldon L. Glashow

#13. NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

Dave Foley

#14. You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#15. There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.

Peter Kreeft

#16. Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field ...

John Geddes

#17. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Robert South

#18. I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Paul Theroux

#19. I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made ... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway ... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie 'Singles.' And I always say, 'How old are you?'

Campbell Scott

#20. It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

James Agee

#21. Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Byron Katie

#22. Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

Jason Henderson

#23. All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Jacques Lipchitz

#24. Every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Maria Edgeworth

#25. You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

Chuck Pagano

#26. Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson