Sandra Faber Quotes

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

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.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

… it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

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

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

We do have, and will continue to have an unquenchable curiosity to understand our Solar System.

When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

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

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

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.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

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