Astronomy Quotes

254 quotes by 173 authors

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. — Johannes Kepler
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole… — Ernst Mach
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the… — Timothy Leary
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our… — Carl Sagan
I'm interested in astrology and astronomy. — Emm Gryner
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land… — Frederick Seitz
That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the… — Thomas Paine
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. — Leonard Roy Frank
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their… — Claude Bernard
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. — Edmond Halley
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. — Martin Ryle
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of… — G. H. Hardy
Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying… — Martin Rees
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first… — C.S. Lewis
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah… — Frederick Reines
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot

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