Fritz Zwicky Quotes

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

Hubble is unique. Nothing else can do what it can do. Once it's gone, we're going to be paralyzed.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

Yes I do it big, call me little astronomical. Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal.

I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.

Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.