Astronomy Quote by Carl Sagan

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and…

— Horace Mann

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 stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.”

— Gabriel Roth

One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and…

— Nancy Roman

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

— Edward Tufte

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

— Annie Jump Cannon

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee