Astronomy Quotes

254 Astronomy quotes by 173 unique authors

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love… — Viswanathan Anand
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on… — James M. Barrie
Love is only one fine star away. — Stevie Nicks
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.… — Raymond Chandler
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would… — John Calvin
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And… — Mark Haddon
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should… — E E Cummings
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. — Ann Druyan
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is,… — H.G. Wells
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. — Carl Sagan
At night the sky is pure astronomy. — Nicole Krauss
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and… — James Joyce

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