Astronomy Quotes · Page 151

With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as…

— Ernest Rhys

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or…

— Alan Dean Foster

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it…

— Plato

A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their…

— Gayl Jones

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences…

— Paracelsus

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“To sparkle its enough to be a Star, but to shine you have to be at Sky.”

— Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

— John Turturro

“The brain’s total number of connections rivals the stars and galaxies of the universe.”

— Paul W. Brand

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise…

— John D. Barrow

(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments,…

— Anonymous

“Ah, deserve,” sighed Kindwind. “The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy. Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I did not have a very in-depth knowledge of 'Star Trek'. I'd seen a couple of the vintage episodes. I knew just…

— Cristin Milioti

“Behind its blue face, the love of the sky shines in the gleam of stars.”

— Anu Lal

I explained that the sun is a star to someone today. It literally made my head ache.

— Philip DeFranco

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

— Alex Grey

“just how naïve could a porn star be?”

— Peter F. Hamilton

One day I was laying outside looking at the sky, and I started to count the stars and named a reason why…

— Domyneik Phipps

As I look the heaven last night, I searched for stars, stayed for a while and wait for such to appear, waited…

— Superman

“How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the…

— Victor Hugo

“[And while people ran about proclaiming such things,] I could only think that everything exists because of loss. From the bricks of…

— Anne Michaels

“Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars,…

— Charlotte Brontë

I've played four roles on 'Star Trek.' My favorite episode was 'The Visitor' on 'Deep Space Nine.'

— Tony Todd

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand…

— John Hall Wheelock

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

— Simone Weil

“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of…

— Isaac Newton

“A vida vem do éter que se condensa Mas o que mais no cosmos me entusiasma É a esfera microscópica do plasma…

— Anonymous

I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.

— Margot Robbie

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on…

— Ernst Mayr

If only one star would fall every time I miss you, then all the stars in heaven would be gone. Don't wonder…

— Ryaj Ablando-Catayas

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…

— Galileo Galilei

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it…

— Melvin Van Peebles

I've always maintained that I'd rather lead an interesting life than be a star.

— Lisa Haydon

“The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.”

— Heraclitus

My awareness left my body and ego, and went on a grand tour of the cosmos.

— Jeff Lowe

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky…

— John Milton

I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making…

— Mohsin Hamid

“A malign star kept him.”

— Cormac McCarthy