Astronomy Quote by Simon Newcomb Download Open image “We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.” — Simon Newcomb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomy
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know. — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and… — Lyman Spitzer Copy Share
I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“But we would do well to meditate daily, rather as the religious do on their God, on the 9.5 trillion kilometres which comprise a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force.… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Wen daylight turns to a darkened hue, D lovely stars hinting at u, ur heart beat tells u something true, That some 1 badly… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Twinking tears in a sea of black. Soft light in a world of darkness. Tiny wishes in a place of dreams. Do you see… — Nicole Gentile Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ... quote has been credited to Les Brown.” — Sylviek Copy Share Image
