Richard H. Baker Quotes

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

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

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make improvements by another factor of 10... a strain sensitivity that is 10 times smaller. This means looking 10 times further out into the universe.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them.

I've always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.

There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.