Quotes About Astronomy

Andromeda is a very nearby galaxy. It resides

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

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.

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

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so. They are like whodunits after you know who did it. Does anyone reread a murder mystery? Whereas the cosmos has been mysterious to humans since long before we knew anything about astronomy or space—and, now that we do, is only more so.

I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in.

The stars are not hereditary

En cuanto me instale, volveré a estudiar las estrellas. Seguro que aquí hay un observatorio. Y también profesores que me enseñen a desenvolverme con los pársecs.

Ahora sí que tú y yo estamos más lejos uno del otro que dos estrellas de diferentes galaxias.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]

Do you know what fascinates me about science? It is that I have found the supreme poetry: the intoxicating giddiness of numbers in mathematics and the mysterious murmur of the universe in astronomy.

If the Sun were reduced to the size of a basketball, Earth would be a small apple seed about 30 meters from the ball.

The most spectacular facility in the world for radar astronomy is the 1000-foot (305-meter) telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico (Figure 6.22).

As a result, astronomy is sometimes called an observational science; we often make our tests by observing many samples of the kind of object we want to study and noting carefully how different samples vary.

This is one of the reasons science has made such dramatic progress. An undergraduate science major today knows more about science and math than did Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most renowned scientists who ever lived. Even in this introductory astronomy course, you will learn about objects and processes that no one a few generations ago even dreamed existed.

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

We already have a pretty good knowledge of the universe's mass-energy content, so if we can get a handle on its geometry, then we will be able to work out exactly what the fate of the universe will be.

Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin.

Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

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