Astronomy Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

— Dante Alighieri

The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

— William Shakespeare

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

— John Milton

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable…

— Henry David Thoreau

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more…

— Bill Watterson

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no…

— Gerald of Wales

“Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal…

— Victor Hugo

The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked…

— P. J. O'Rourke

All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural…

— Saint Basil

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast…

— Nachman of Breslov