Quotes About Astronomy

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

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

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

We are made of starstuff.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

We ourselves are made of Stardust.

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there."Touched by an Alien

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

Vilna Gaon was also an expert in nearly all secular wisdom of his time, for he felt that such knowledge enhanced the understanding of many aspects of Torah and Kabbalah; he even left several volumes which deal with mathematics and astronomy (personal testimony of the Vilna Gaon's children in the introduction of the Hebrew text of this book)/

Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.