All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“She deserved the Nobel Prize for her work. Often said by Hubble about Henrietta Swan Leavitt .”
“I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second”
“If the apparent magnitudes of the nebulae are corrected merely for the effect of the red”
“Equipped with our five senses, we explore the universe around us.”
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”
“The universe is expanding, and with it, so is our understanding.”
“Observations always involve theory.”
“With increasing distance, our knowledge fades.”
“The exploration of space is the greatest adventure humanity can undertake.”
“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of world it is.”
“Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive.”
“The cosmologist is the historian of the universe.”
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it! In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”
“damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
“Understanding is a two”
“It isn't enough to talk about peace . One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Voice of America broadcast”
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”
“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”
“good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.' from”
“In Defense of Curiosity”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash”
“To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.”
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”
“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be a marvel in a man learning to hold his tongue.”
“The past cannot be cured.”
“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”
“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.”
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”