Quotes About Astronomical

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exercise such as the one we have just gone through. What is more, when we understand something of the astronomical dynamics, the evolution of worlds, we recognize that worlds are born and worlds die, they have lifetimes just as humans do, and therefore that there is a great deal of suffering and death in the cosmos if there is a great deal of life.

If you had a piece of neutron star about the size of a grape, it would weigh 100 million tonnes.

The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

Channel 75's sleek silver building. It had been constructed in the mid-twenties when the media boom had hit such astronomical proportions as to generate more profits than a small country.

Celestial happenings, however, don't limit themselves to what's convenient for the human retina.

The Gum Nebula was one of the largest astronomical landmarks in the Orion Arm. It was a gigantic supernova remnant, a shock front from the death of a star over a million years in the past.

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

The Pleroma plays a central role the Gnostic cosmology. The Pleroma has a physical location in the astronomical mythology of Gnosticism; it is situated in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events.

My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.

Many consider the publication of this book to be the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.   This has been debated.  However, Copernicus' theory stimulated the astronomical work of some of the most important minds of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, upon which later natural philosophers, including Newton, were able to build modern science.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev's street.

Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

Life is just a frame in astronomical sense, yet it is remembered mostly by those around you, so be a good person and take a great picture.

He was a planet without an atmosphere.

This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.

rushing along its annual course round the sun at the rate of nineteen miles every second.

Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then