Astronomy Quote by Galileo Galilei

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

— Pascual Jordan

“I research what astronomers do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“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

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.”

— Thomas Hardy

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe…

— James Pollard Espy

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

— Martin Luther

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is…

— Thomas Huxley

“The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen”

— Clifford Stoll