Astronomers Quote by Andreas Osiander

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

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe…

— James Pollard Espy

Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those hypotheses. But…

— Giuseppe Peano

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of…

— George Phillips Bond

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it…

— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Cornelius Lanczos

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even…

— Bertrand Russell

“An Astronomer is to tell where the planets are. Then an Astrologer is to interpret what the location of those planets mean for a…

— Mitta Xinindlu

I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show…

— Johannes Kepler