Astronomy Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical,…

— Steven Pinker

“The lessons of rocks, stars,and life are clear. To understand Earth, you must divorce yourself for the inconsequential temporal or spacial scale of human…

— Anonymous

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but…

— Jared Diamond

“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its…

— Carl Sagan

“Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small…

— Ann Druyan

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature,…

— Seth Lloyd

“Majority of people find that nature is anything that walks and grows on planet Earth, astronomers have found that this nature stretches way beyond…

— Michel Reitsma

“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

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

— Carl Sagan

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet…

— Brian Cox