Astronomy Quote by Francis William Aston

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human…

— Francis William Aston

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

— Kelly Easton

“A Scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.”

— Gordon L. Glegg

To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes…

— Brian Swimme

“Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp.”

— Douglas Adams

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

— Carl Sagan

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

— Brian Swimme

“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies. Nearly a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

— Janet Fitch

So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.

— Bob Inglis

There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and…

— Christine McCormick Day