Amazing Quote by Sandra Faber

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

— Peggy Whitson

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

— Carl Sagan

It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have…

— Jean Sylvain Bailly

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

— Sophocles

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he…

— Bill Vaughan

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past, some as they were before…

— Carl Sagan

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies…

— Jacob Bronowski

Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.

— Seth Shostak

Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we…

— Natalie Angier

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

— Simon Newcomb

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

— Shea Hembrey