Quotes About Astronomy

One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.

My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics and exploration in general.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

All the NASA footage is in the public domain, and it's so beautiful; it's really stunning.

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

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

Look, Abdul. Star number one thousand! Woo-hoo! Stale orb! - Dan

there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

The larger the universe gets, it seems, the smaller and less important we humans appear. As one novelist put it, the history of astronomy is the history of increasing humiliation.

Listen to Fantasia on a Theme whilst looking up at a starry night sky and then you will begin to know of cosmical wonderment, of cosmocentric thinking, and you will begin to understand Astronism.

By 1800 BC, the ancient Babylonians had divided the day into hours, the hour into sixty minutes, and the minute into sixty seconds.

If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.