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“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.”

— Philip Pullman

“Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky riots with…

— John Steinbeck

“truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.’ ” “More Oscar Wilde?” “Galileo, the father of modern…

— Kami Garcia

“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;…

— Walt Whitman

“The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“He'd never seen the galaxy like this before, so close, so clear, parallel tracks of stars merging and separating, all of it wheeling as…

— A.W. Baldwin

“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…”

— Carl Sagan

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy…

— Olivia Howard Dunbar

“OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me.”

— William Meikle

“while they had been talking the stars had grown fainter and great gaps of white light were appearing in the greyness of the eastern…

— C.S. Lewis

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“There were no stars, or if they were they shone like volcanic glass.”

— J.V. Jones