Astronomers Quote by Robert Recorde

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really…

— Vanna Bonta

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed…

— Anonymous

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

— Ibn Khaldun

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician;…

— Francis Bacon

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson