Quotes About Astronomy

il est curieux de voir à quelles extravagantes rêveries peut donner lieu une science aussi « positive » que veut l'être l'astronomie moderne.

It is curious to see how a science as 'positivist' as modern astronomy can occasion such extravagant daydreams

Due to the relative positions of the Sun, Venus, and the Earth, we see Venus trace a pentacle, a five-pointed star, in the sky through a series of solar conjunctions.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

A relação da medicina com o charlatanismo é a mesma da astronomia com a astrologia. O que as estrelas predizem para os leitores de jornais é inofensivo, mas o lançamento de um ônibus espacial ou de um satélite, orientado pela astrologia, ao invés da astronomia, seria desastroso. Mas a humanidade sofre de uma fascinação eterna pelos charlatães. Talvez porque todos nós gostemos de pensar que sabemos mais do que nossos médicos.

To the human eye, stars move very slowly. Considering their relative motion, at this moment she and I might be looking up at virtually the same sight. She in 1896, me in 1971.

I told him what some astronomers now thought: a billion or more planets at least as lucky as ours in the Milky Way alone. In a universe ninety-three billion light-years across, Rare Earths sprang up like weeds.

At one in a million, there are roughly ten million of them in the Milky Way alone.

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

Bob says hello, he told the stars.

I can see the stars again m'lady.

The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made advances in what would today be described as arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, much of their work being motivated by an interest in astronomy. The system is based on three key ideas: notations for the numerals, place value, and zero.

How come you know when Easter is?" and he had replied: "Because it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the twenty-first day of March, obviously." It had been a mistake to add "obviously," because Erman had punched him in the stomach for being sarcastic.

When the Templars came back from the Middle East, they brought back all this knowledge that had been lost in Europe during the Dark Ages. Medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, cartography. The Church hated it.

The Templars were Christians, sure, but they also venerated Mother Nature and the stars and the seasons. Whereas the Church wanted nothing to do with nature. They saw science and medicine and astronomy as challenges to their doctrines. They wanted people to have faith, not knowledge.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles." ~ Ithana Aaronson

Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.