Art Quote by John Calvin

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It…

— Thomas Paine

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details…

— Percival Lowell

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

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

— Carl Becker

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

— William James

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which…

— Martin Luther

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course…

— Daniel Quinn

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom…

— John Calvin

“His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the lowly objects…

— Blaise Pascal

“What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and…

— H. P. Lovecraft