Pastoral Resources

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.

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

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

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

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

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

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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