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Love is only one fine star away. — Stevie Nicks

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! — Edward Young

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor

Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders. — Steven Magee

...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo] — Allan Chapman

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. — Fred Brooks

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. — Simon Newcomb

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. — Leonard Roy Frank

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question. — David Letterman

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence. — Carl Sagan

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment. — Alastair Reynolds

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars. — Kelli Russell Agodon

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon

Astronomy, mixed with astrology, occupied a large number of tablets in the Babylonian libraries, — Ethelbert William Bullinger

Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph] — William Herschel

A naked moon stood in a naked sky. — G.K. Chesterton

For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors. — Steven Magee

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes — Edsger W. Dijkstra

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person. — Steven Magee

People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world. — Munia Khan

The earth from afar shines like a star — Vincent Van Gogh

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful. — Lydia Netzer

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same. — Steven Erikson

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. — Christiaan Huygens

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult

We are made of star material, and every atom of matter on Earth originated in the core of a star. — Margaret Robertson

...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.} — Pierre-Simon Laplace

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. — John Calvin

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night — Richard G. Lillard

Light brings us the news of the Universe. — William Henry Bragg

in astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them. — Salma Deera

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. — John Scott Russell

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy. — Emm Gryner

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. — Christopher Wren

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy. — John Pipkin

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility. — Arthur C. Clarke

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. — Carl Sagan

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere. — John Pipkin

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble

I don't believe in astronomy. Or is it astrology? I always get those two confused. But I'll tell you, that Copernicus was full of shit. — Jarod Kintz

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy. — Otto E. Neugebauer

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable. — John Pipkin

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. — Ferdinand Magellan

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas Of Cusa

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.. — Voltaire

The blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought, — Jim Butcher

Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life. — Carl Sagan

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. — Rebecca West

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use. — Johannes Kepler

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. — Jodi Picoult

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. — Sally Ride

The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight — Isaac Asimov

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. — Carl Sagan

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. — Cornelius Lanczos

The blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. — Eric Chaisson

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. — Andre Dubus

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. — Sonu Nigam

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato

The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic. — Rumi

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night. — Fred Brooks

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on. — William Wilson Morgan

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery. — John Pipkin

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days. — John Pipkin

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer. — Brian May

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. — John Herschel

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. — Elizabeth Moon

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. — Richard A. Proctor

Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. — Ann Druyan

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. — Eric Chaisson

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. — Edwin Powell Hubble

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan. — Albert Einstein

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. — Martin Ryle

The barrier has begun to yield. — John Herschel

[Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.] — Walter Baade

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. — Jacob Bronowski

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci. — Johannes Kepler

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from. — Jill Tarter

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre Laplace

At night the sky is pure astronomy. — Nicole Krauss

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. — Johannes Kepler

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. — Thomas Hardy

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. — Terry Pratchett

For a long time I wanted to become a theologian ... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy. — Johannes Kepler

This sight ... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. — Edmond Halley