Astronomy Quote by Steven Pinker

“Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away our status…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Perhaps we’re back at the frontiers only of science here, and there’s nothing supernatural about it – just the emergence, through a thinning divide,…

— Andrea Gillies

“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

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central…

— Ann Druyan

“I’m so old that I often tell myself, on nights when multitudes of stars are sparkling in the sky, there must necessarily be something…

— Kamel Daoud

“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump…

— Carl Sagan

“Everything in us is connected — from the spinning energy centers in our bodies to the stars shining above us.”

— Margarita Sekulova, Affirmations: A Guide to Manifest Better Life

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

“We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture…

— Stephen Hawking

“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