Astronomy Quote by Maimonides

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…

— Johannes Kepler

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

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state…

— Pierre Simon de Laplace

The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become…

— Tony Rothman

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

— John Scott Russell

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only;…

— Thomas Paine