Astronomy Quote by George Phillips Bond

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in…

— Andreas Osiander

Talk about celestial bodies.

— Jackson Browne

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

— Cornelius Lanczos

The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we…

— Auguste Comte

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few…

— Hannes Alfven

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of them by…

— George F. Hourani

I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because…

— Nicolaus Copernicus