Scientist Quotes

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.
I'm not in favor of manned spaceflight, because I don't see that it goes anywhere.
In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.
It's a blessing in a scientific career - the almost daily thrill of scientific discovery.
It's quite likely that planets and solar systems like ours could be forming in other galaxies in great numbers.
Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy.
My favorite galaxy of all is called the Sombrero, NGC 4594. It's an amazing galaxy that is really two galaxies in one.
One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.
Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.
The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.
The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.
The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.
There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing, for a big revolutionary discovery. And it's wonderfully well known, and of course every scientist would love to get a Nobel prize. And there's a few other similar awards. They're for individual blockbuster discoveries.
There are some galaxies that not only teach us things but are just gorgeously beautiful to look at. My favorite example is the Antenne, which is a pair of colliding galaxies.
Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin.
We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.
We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.
You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
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