Astronomy Quote by Thomas Hardy

“I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have…

— Thomas Hardy

...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to…

— Thomas Hardy

“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes…

— Thomas Hardy

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

— Walter Benjamin

“Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big…

— John Green

“What if the constellations no longer held? [...] Would it not cause one to scrutinize the totality of one's surroundings carefully? Would it not terrify?”

— J.J. Abrams

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image…

— John Berger

The stars have grooved our eyes with old persuasions Of love and hatred, birth,surcease of nations . . .

— Hart Crane

“My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind…

— T. A. Barron

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

— Lauren Miller

“I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me.…

— Silvia Violet