Astronomy Quote by Anonymous

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

— Stephen Hawking

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely…

— Carl Sagan

“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its…

— Carl Sagan

“You might imagine an uncharitable extraterrestrial observer looking down on our species... - with us excitedly chattering, "The Universe is created for us! We're…

— Carl Sagan

“Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe,…

— Colin Maclaurin

As our understanding of the architecture of the universe increases so does our ability to facilitate great change. We are beginning to understand scientifically…

— Tom Malkus

“The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things,…

— Karen Kingston

“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature…

— Johannes Kepler

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.”

— N.K. Jemisin

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell…

— Janine Benyus

“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy…

— Stephen Jay Gould