Quotes About Astronomy

Phænomena's of Cœlestial Bodies

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

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The moon rose in the east and that was moon-rise. Six hours later it hung at its zenith between east and west, and that was south-moon-over. It set in the west and that was moon-down. Then it passed from sight and swung under the earth, between west and east. And when it was directly under the earth, that was south-moon-under.

estás sobre un planeta que viaja a la velocidad de ciento siete mil kilómetros por hora a través del espacio, al mismo tiempo que rota alrededor de su eje a una velocidad de mil seiscientos kilómetros por hora.

Getting to space is not rocket science, it's political science!

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the origins of stars. The young astronomer knew that in Aristotelian times the word 'comet' meant "the length of luminous hair," but the word eventually changed to signify the orbiting streak that sometimes, just sometimes, flies a little too close to the sun.

Astronomers are disclosing insights that New Agers would welcome and be attuned to. Not only do we share a common origin, and many genes, with the entire web of life on Earth, but we are linked to the cosmos. All living things depend on the stars: they are energised by the heat and light from the Sun; they are made of atoms that were forged from pristine hydrogen, billions of years ago, in faraway stars.

Back in 1698 Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist who did pioneering work in optics, wrote 'Why [should] not every one of these stars and suns have as great a retinue as our sun, of planets, with their moons to wait upon them?

But orbital mechanics waits for no man,

People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth.

Caesar corrected the error and, for the future, established a year with 365 days, with an extra day inserted at the end of February every four years. This was a far more significant outcome of his visit to Egypt than any dalliance with Cleopatra.

It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea that constellations are a whimsical projection of the human mind than a reflection of astronomic reality.

Son cou est saupoudré de grains de beauté minuscules, constellations descendant jusqu'à ses seins. Je deviens l'astronome de sa peau, fourre mon nez dans ses étoiles.

That humans are not at the centre of things. You know, the planet is in orbit around the sun. That was a fucking hilarious joke in the 1500s, but Copernicus wasn't a comedian. He was, apparently, the least funny man of the whole Renaissance. He made Raphael look like Richard Pryor. But he was telling the fucking truth.

The soul dies like a star – by collapsing in on itself.

My best inorganic friend is science!

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

La práctica de la astronomía y la voluntad científica vacían el cielo cristiano como una bañera llena de agua residual. La física es una antimetafísica; permite una ontología material

By the sixth century B.C. Pythagoras and his students had embarked on the immense ordering task that attempted to find common numerical laws binding together astronomy, geometry, music, and arithmetic. Not surprisingly, their work was difficult to distinguish from religion, since it tried to accomplish similar goals: to find a way of expressing the structure of the universe. Two thousand years later, Kepler and then Newton were still on the same quest. Theoretical

Pluto is dead.