Astronomy Quotes

You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any ...

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast o...

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which...

What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank...

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. B...

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To...

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was noth...

There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and...

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from...

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

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

The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the plane...

The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or ...

At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most uncons...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclips...

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million t...

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclea...

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the...

I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space explorati...

n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and ...

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by th...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes s...

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

who knows if the moon'sa balloon,coming out of a keen cityin the sky--filled with pretty people?( an...

Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.

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

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or ba...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the univer...

Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the un...

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aestheticall...

Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhab...

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in th...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

The stars, like dust, encircle meIn living mists of light;And all of space I seem to seeIn one vast ...

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that ...

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of...

It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind h...

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably ca...

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and ...

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, ar...

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boun...

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have onl...

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.

Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon?...

The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values ...

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not h...

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only wi...

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for th...

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more of...

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe bu...

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could beg...

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter,...

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite pos...

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," abou...

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim...

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

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, e...

Love is only one fine star away.