Astronomy Quote by William Herschel

“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be…

— William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

— William Herschel

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out…

— Richard Branson

“The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000…

— Richard Kurin

When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years…

— Jostein Gaarder

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take…

— Margaret Geller

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey…

— Douglas Adams

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond…

— Brian Cox

“The light from the next closest star, called Proxima Centauri, shows us how it looked just over four years ago. The light from a…

— Carolyn Collins Petersen

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it…

— Sara Seager

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A few more years passed before I understood the distance between that satellite and the stars. Back then I was reading a popular set…

— Liu Cixin