Astronomy Quotes

254 Astronomy quotes by 173 unique authors

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear… — Victor Hugo
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in… — Marvin Minsky
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… — John Ruskin
If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with… — Johannes Kepler
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle… — Galileo Galilei
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not… — Albert Claude
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. — Simon Newcomb
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… — Richard Dawkins
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave… — Justus von Liebig
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer

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