Asks Quote by Arthur Eddington

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature…

— Arthur Eddington

And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss…

— Christopher Buckley

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning…

— Lincoln Steffens

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago.…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

— Alfred North Whitehead

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

— Paul Tibbets

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

— Anonymous

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

— Willard Libby

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

— Geri Halliwell

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

— Henry David Thoreau