Ascent Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

— John Ruskin

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

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and…

— Horace Mann

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

— Mason Cooley

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind…

— Timothy Ferriss

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

— Emilio Ambasz

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

— Carl Sagan

The universe is a great university.

— Sai Baba

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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