Astronomy Quotes

Astronomy Quote of the day

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Love is only one fine star away.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.