Astronomers Quote by Fritz Zwicky

“Spheres are indeed fertile theoretical tools that help us gain insight into all manner of astrophysical problems. But one should not be a sphere-zealot.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies…

— Jacob Bronowski

“To interpret dots in the sky as white-hot, million-kilometre spheres, one must first have thought of the idea of such spheres. And then one…

— David Deutsch

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he…

— Bill Vaughan

Astronomy is written for astronomers

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the…

— Tycho Brahe

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being…

— Nicolaus Copernicus