Astronomy Quote by Annie Jump Cannon

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the…

— Richard P. Feynman

One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same…

— William Huggins

The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral…

— Stephen Hawking

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

— Dante Alighieri

“How do you study something that cannot possibly get your clothes dirty? How do astrophysicists know anything about either the universe or its contents…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Cornelius Lanczos

“The study of the universe as a whole is a unique enterprise. At least in one sense one is seeking to understand the totality…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

— Margaret Geller

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost…

— Carl Sagan

“The precise structure and description of the Galaxy is quite complicated with many unsolved problems. However, from the point of view of the large-scale…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam