Astronomy Quote by Gene Stratton-Porter

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

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the…

— Lyman Spitzer

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on…

— Francis Crick

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

— Simon Newcomb

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and…

— Maimonides

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and…

— Horace Mann

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed…

— Anonymous

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

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson