Astronomy Quote by Christiaan Huygens

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

— Johannes Kepler

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is…

— Johannes Kepler

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.

— Aristotle

Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant…

— Alfred Worden

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated…

— Anaximander of Miletus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

— Robinson Jeffers

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and…

— Lewis Thomas

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more…

— Bruce Cockburn

Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's ring system…

— Carolyn Porco