Astronomy Quotes

254 quotes by 173 authors

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes… — Unknown Author
These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino… — John N. Bahcall
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Unknown Author
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of… — Catherine Booth
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep… — Dean Rusk
I think music is about our internal life. Itâ€™s part of the way people touch each other. Thatâ€™s very precious to me. And astronomy is,… — Brian May
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer — Brian May
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Unknown Author
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things… — Plato
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs… — Don Berliner
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Astronomy is written for astronomers — Nicolaus Copernicus
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… — John Donne

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