Ancient egyptian Quote by Sam Kean

“Implicitly or explicitly, the rhythms of our lives, the movement from season to season, the patterns of the winds, and the pulse of the…

— Ray A. Williamson

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and…

— Carl Sagan

I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of…

— Vera Rubin

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image…

— John Berger

“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea…

— Massimo Pigliucci

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“He traced the constellations as they slid their way across the roof of the world from dusk till dawn. The precision of it, the…

— M.L. Stedman

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

— Jodi Picoult

“Man’s time is short on the earth, but we trees watch the years march past like days. The stars are motionless to you, but…

— G. Norman Lippert

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I…

— Thomas Carlyle

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

— Jack Gilbert