20th-century Astronomer Quotes

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Astronomy has marched forward with the growth in size of its telescopes.

There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity.... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.