Observatories Quotes

We think of it as exploring the time frontier. At the bigger observatories, they go to frontiers by building bigger telescopes. Here, we go to a frontier by observing for a longer period of time. - William Herbst

The great scientific value of these tropical forest observatories is that each of them has undergone a complete census more than once, so that the researchers know what has happened to hundreds of thousands of trees from one census to the next. These tropical forest observatories, along with others in our network, represent some of the most important, detailed and long-running ecological studies in the world today. - Stuart Davies

I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago. - Scott Simon