“But I think that what it comes down to is this: we haven't stopped doing astronomy for the same reason we haven't stopped making art - it is just part of us.” — James Geach Copy Share Image
“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.” — Benjamin Silliman Copy Share Image
