Astronomy Quotes

254 quotes by 173 authors

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space. — Gore Vidal
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he… — Francoise Sagan
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a… — Jacob Bronowski
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with… — John Templeton
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas of Cusa
I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very… — Craig Brewer
When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name… — William Shakespeare
My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion. — William Shakespeare
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science… — Edsger Dijkstra
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question. — David Letterman
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a… — Walter Cronkite
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study… — George Frederick Pentecost
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus . — Alfred North Whitehead
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as… — Jimmy Carter

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