Astronomy Quotes

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

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

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

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

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

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Billions and billions.

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

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

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.

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

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

There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

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

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.

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

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

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

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

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.

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

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

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

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

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

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.