Astronomy Quote by James Jeans

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space…

— Carl Sagan

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

— Michael Gungor

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

— Santiago Calatrava

A grain of sand, a mountain or a whole solar system will move the same way with a faithful heart.

— Eliseo Acosta

What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?

— William Maginn

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on…

— Carl Sagan

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal…

— Lionel Tiger