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Edsgar Dijkstra

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

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I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

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Brian May

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

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Astronomy

(originally recorded by blue oyster cult)
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madmans face
His reasons tend to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds, yeah
Like silver scrapes in may
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away, then youre gone away
Ah, come susie dear, lets take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know youll soon be married
And you want to know where winds come from
Well, its never said at all
On the map that carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar, mm, yeah
Yeah
Hey!
Hey!

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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

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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

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

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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

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In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

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Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

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My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.

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