Astronomy Quotes

254 quotes by 173 authors

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… — Richard Dawkins
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave… — Justus von Liebig
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard… — Unknown Author
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have… — Hannes Alfven
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to… — John N. Bahcall
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of… — Augustus De Morgan
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. — Unknown Author
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved,… — William Herschel
In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of… — Unknown Author
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Unknown Author
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet

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