Astronomy Quotes

254 quotes by 173 authors

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of… — James R Newman
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research… — Octavia Butler
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do… — James Keller
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are… — Percival Lowell
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to… — Arno Allan Penzias
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from… — Swami Vivekananda
The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from… — Swami Vivekananda
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of… — John Calvin
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy… — Daniel Pinchbeck
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.… — Mark Twain
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate. — Sophocles
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar

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