Quotes About Astronomy

Space, to use a cliché, is big.

those photographs taken from lunar orbit, in which our planet looks more or less like any other planet (except to an astronomer): silent, revolving, beautiful, dead, irrelevant.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

I look like the man in the moon.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

See the moon? It hates us.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Purity is defined by the clearness of the stars

Space has always been confusing to politics.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

it takes photons of light just over 8 minutes to reach Earth, 150 million kilometers away.

tax. When the star stops generating energy, it will collapse.

Even a typical star converts millions of tonnes of mass into energy every second, with each gram releasing as much energy as an atom bomb.

Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich (2006) reported that there are more than 100 billion galaxies. One of these, our own relative speck of a galaxy, has a few hundred billion stars, many of which, like our Sun-star, are circled by planets. On the scale of outer space, we are less than a single grain of sand on all the oceans' beaches, and our lifetime but a relative nanosecond.

for the first time ever the majority of children being born today will never in their lives directly see the Milky Way galaxy. The cosmic connection has never been closer or more remote. Age