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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.

~Alan Shepard

Topics: Astronomer Back Because Believe Contribute Fame Field Get Going Good Got Life Lot Pilot Scientist Whatever Whether You Your

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No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Astronomer Away Bummer Chains Children Cool Get Had Lot Lots Me Neat Negative Often People Profession Say Something Takes Things Times Travel Tremendous Whole Working You

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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

~Alan Stern

Topics: About Astronomer Listen Planet Why Would You

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I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Astronomer Audiences Brain Brain Surgery Go Planetary Public Science Surgery Tell

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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.

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Actually Associate Astronomer Black Black Hole Details Finite Get Hole Ignore Lot Massive Scales Size Super Things Understand Work I Can

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

~Brian May

Topics: Astronomer Astronomy Fun More Much You

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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

~Brian Schmidt

Topics: Am Astronomer Better Heavens Job Look Our Place Understand Universe I Am

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The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Accomplish Astronomer Believe Centre Comet Distance Erratic Give Journey Life Light Lost Most One-Half Our Revisit Sphere Those Up Wandered Who Will

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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.

~Claude Nicollier

Topics: Area Astronomer Become Child Dream Efforts First Parallel Pilot Pursued Second Studies Two

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When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

~Daniel Hope

Topics: Astronomer Essentially Eyes First Great His Introduced Magnitude Man Me Music Notion Opened Project Spheres Teens Universe Who Work

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