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

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in…

— Urbain Le Verrier

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in…

— Urbain Le Verrier

“Sir William Herschel was the first person to discover a planet beyond those easily visible to the naked eye, and he was ready to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet…

— John Couch Adams

“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

The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.

— Debra Fischer

“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its…

— Carl Sagan

Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.

— Rajnath Singh

“The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. In 1610, Galileo observed sunspots on its surface, proving that the Sun was rotating and at…

— Stewart Stafford

“All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight and found incontrovertible evidence of…

— Sam Kean

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history…

— Martin Rees