Astronomy Quote by Robert M. Hazen

“Most star systems in the cosmos are binary (double-starred), which makes our solitary sun a slight oddity.”

— Bill Bryson

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize…

— Jodi Picoult

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun;…

— Galileo Galilei

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary…

— Jonathan Swift

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun;…

— Galileo Galilei

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

— Giordano Bruno

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

— Seneca the Younger

“I live in a binary star system, my two suns being my two sons.”

— Corrado Ghinamo

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously…

— Percival Lowell

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 believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

— Margaret Wertheim