Astronomy Quotes
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Astronomy Quotes & Sayings
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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
...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo]
— Allan Chapman
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
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
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 madnessorganized in the stars. — Kelli Russell Agodon
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
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
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
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
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
— Otto E. Neugebauer
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
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 starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron
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 meIn living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight — Isaac Asimov
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
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[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
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
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
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
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[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
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.
— Phil Plait
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