Astronomy Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.”

— Gabriel Roth

Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this…

— Heidi Hammel

“Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe…

— Kevin Alan Milne

“The science of mathematics applies to the clouds; the radiance of starlight nourishes the rose; no thinker will dare say that the scent of…

— Victor Hugo

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and…

— Nancy Roman

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that…

— Carl Sagan

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

— Annie Jump Cannon

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

— Anonymous

You can look up, you can see the stars, the moon and the sun, and you wonder: How does it all work? I didn't…

— Wally Funk

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost…

— Carl Sagan