Astronomy Quote by Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in…

— Andreas Osiander

“obviously it matters little if we think of the earth as turning about on its axis, or if we view it at rest while…

— Ernst Mach

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

— Carrie Nugent

Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than…

— Tycho Brahe

E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Jacob Bronowski

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

— Socrates

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the…

— Galileo Galilei

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

— Stephen Leacock

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville