Astronomer Quotes

I`m a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

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

(on his early dream to be an astronomer) I could study the stars and the planets forever. I always wanted to know why, why . . . Pictures changed my mind. I was too far along in the movie business. But when I go back to Caltech now and hear about things I`m not familiar with, like black holes, goddamn! I get mad. How the hell I ever refused that I don`t know . . . But it seems like motion pictures have a terrible hold on me. I don`t know what it is . . .