Astronomy Quote by Douglas Adams

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe…

— Kevin Alan Milne

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be…

— William Herschel

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as…

— Rakim

“What is it about traveling by night that makes even a short journey strange and a little wonderful? Momentary lights appear and pass across…

— Ari Berk

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond…

— Brian Cox

“There’s something satisfying, I think,’ Evans said, ‘about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right…

— Bill Bryson

“A few more years passed before I understood the distance between that satellite and the stars. Back then I was reading a popular set…

— Liu Cixin

We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are…

— Eileen Pollack

“Out in our neck of the woods-26,000 light-years (2.5 X 10^20 meters) from the galactic center-stars follow orbital paths that take them around the…

— Caleb Scharf

“Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we…

— Ali Benjamin