Astronomy Quote by Trevor Paglen

“Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore…

— Steven D. Price

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

— Alexander Calder

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

— Cornelius Lanczos

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space…

— Mark Gatiss

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Geometry existed before creation.

— Plato

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

— Ai Weiwei

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no…

— Paul Davies

In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first…

— Edward Teller

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer