Dennis Overbye Quotes

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

Dennis Overbye

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Blue

• I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Focus
  • Coach
  • Much

• When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Standing

• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Wall
  • Standing
  • Saws

• Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• The undevout astronomer must be mad.

  

  William Herschel
  • Mad
  • Astronomers

• He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Sense
  • Standing
  • Vague

• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

  

  John Milton
  • Dream
  • Poets
  • Sights

• The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

  

  William Empson
  • Heart
  • Standing

• Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Questions
  • Astronomers

• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Earth
  • Sky
  • Stars

• At this very moment astronomers are detecting planets around distant stars by measuring how much their orbits wobble and the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop. The story of how we measure the physical universe is the history of science itself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Science
  • Measuring
  • Astronomers

• In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.

  

  Celia Fremlin
  • Man
  • Notebook
  • Terrifying

• A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Study
  • Correlation
  • Astronomers

• A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

  

  Nathan McCall
  • Men
  • Standing
  • Meals

• I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

  

  John Prine
  • Good
  • Song
  • Better

• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Different
  • Struggle
  • Goal

• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  

  David Gell
  • Citizens
  • Warrior
  • Weapons

• These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Made

• Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Thinking
  • Eye
  • Attitude

• I have always loved going to school.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • School

• Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

  

  Dennis Overbye
  • Standing
  • Sights
  • Astronomers