Astronomy Quote by John Corry

“Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from strategic points,…

— Ross King

Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing…

— Edmund Burke

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I like to think of the stars as holes on the floor of heaven, Maybe that's why I love the stars so much.?

— The Bucket List

“landmarks were “a little shabby.” Half the gilding was gone from the dome of Les Invalides, where Napoleon was buried. The same was true…

— David McCullough

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious…

— Martin Rees

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry…

— Edmund Burke

At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they…

— Michael Persinger

“The stars: what are they? They are chunks of ice reflecting the sun; they are lights afloat on the waters beyond the transparent dome;…

— Vija Celmins

Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle