Scientist Quotes

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
We live in a technical society.
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.
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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