Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else wil…

- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand s…

- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin