Astronomy Quotes
254 Astronomy quotes by 173 unique authors
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To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to…
— Galileo Galilei
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky…
— Honor Harger
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
— Edgar Mitchell
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Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
— Richard Dawkins
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In…
— Natalie Babbitt
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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a…
— George Phillips Bond
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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being…
— Charles Francis Richter
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But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the…
— James Nasmyth
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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction…
— Octavia Butler
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world…
— Plato
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,…
— Dr Carl Sagan
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Quran in the light of Science part 1 Furthermore this document listed further miracles to prove that the universe had a creator. There is a…
— Kaceem Aveiro
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Sometimes, I think of the sun and the moon as lovers who rarely meet, always chase, and almost always miss one another. But once in…
— Uknown
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Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
— Plato
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You are the moon and I am the sun Your light is unlike any other one Promise to guide me through the unlit and in…
— Caroline Downs
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The world is my country, science is my religion.
— Christiaan Huygens
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
— E. O. Wilson
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother
— Voltaire
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I'm a outer space balla, put you up on astronomy. Mathamatically with a pistol I do trigonometry.
— Young Dro
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We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Unknown Author
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Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the…
— Ptolemy
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With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Astronomy Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 254 Astronomy Quotes, led by these top contributors: