Astronomer Quote by Stewart Stafford

“E pur si muove." (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“The sun is 91 million miles away; not too far, not too close. Be like that”

— Sarah Gorham

“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

— Ken Livingstone

“Someone who knows the sun only from moonlight will not believe that it is the sun when he encounters it directly!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Sun contains most of the mass of the solar system (99.9 percent) in a ball whose diameter is about 100 times that of…

— Joanne Baker

“The Earth´s sun can look very much alone, yet it has relatives all across this galaxy, stars that were born in the exact same…

— Matt Haig

“Their mistake was the mistake of Galileo. He was right that the earth revolves around the sun, but he didn't know that the entire…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Sun doesn't need to prove its brilliance- Its identity lies in its power to illuminate the world”

— Kavitha Kane

“Nicolaus Copernicus, fearing ridicule and rejection, refused to publish his discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. For 26 years, he shared his…

— Edify.me

“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Across the sea of space. The stars are other suns. We have traveled this way before. And there is much to be learned.”

— Carl Sagan