Astronomy Quote by Gabriel Roth

“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

“We are star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

— James Rollins

“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

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“In a trillion or so years, anyone alive in our own galaxy may know nothing of other galaxies. Our observable universe will merely comprise…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If you still experience the stars as something "over you," you still don't have the eyes of a knower.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Across the sea of space. The stars are other suns. We have traveled this way before. And there is much to be learned.”

— Carl Sagan

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we…

— Bill Bryson

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

“There's one detail I've always remembered: He told me how long it takes the light from the stars to reach through space to us.…

— Carrie Ryan