Appearance Quote by Tycho Brahe

“In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered over with…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres.…

— Frederick Lenz

The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole;…

— Ptolemy

They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Spheres are indeed fertile theoretical tools that help us gain insight into all manner of astrophysical problems. But one should not be a sphere-zealot.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career,…

— E.H. Chapin

“The Cosmic Director has written His own plays, and assembled the tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark booth of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond…

— Blaise Pascal

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

— Marcus Aurelius

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

— Steven Erikson

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

— Fritz Zwicky