Quotes About Celestial

SOCRATES. Silence, old man, give heed to the prayers.... Oh! most mighty king, the boundless air, that keepest the earth suspended in space, thou bright Aether and ye venerable goddesses, the Clouds, who carry in your loins the thunder and the lightning, arise, ye sovereign powers and manifest yourselves in the celestial spheres to the eyes of the sage.

Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way." - John W. Campbell

The outermost—Jupiter XXVII—moved backwards in an unstable path nineteen million miles from its temporary master. It was the prize in a perpetual tug-of-war between Jupiter and the Sun, for the planet was constantly capturing short-lived moons from the asteroid belt, and losing them again after a few million years. Only the inner satellites were its permanent property; the Sun could never wrest them from its grasp.

I thought this couldn't happen in astronomy. Isn't celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.

Cassini—who discovered Japetus in 1671—also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other.

Shuttling back and forth in the equatorial plane where the brilliant stars of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - worlds that elsewhere would have counted as planets in their own right, but which here were merely satellites of a giant master.

forth in the equatorial plane were the brilliant stars

oh my God - it's full of stars!

mundos que en cualquier otra parte hubiesen sido considerados como planetas por propio derecho, pero que allí eran simplemente satélites de un amo gigante.

Para todos os outros olhos, Saturno sempre havia mostrado todo o seu disco iluminado, inteiramente virado para o Sol. Agora ele era um arco delicado, com os anéis formando uma linha fina que o cortava - como uma flecha prestes a ser disparada, na face do próprio Sol. Também na linha dos anéis estava a estrela brilhante de Titã, e às fagulhas mais fracas das outras luas.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Before the starry threshold of Jove's CourtMy mansion is.

The evening star,Love's harbinger.

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

The starry copeOf heaven.

At whose sight all the starsHide their diminish'd heads.

And the gilded car of day,His glowing axle doth allayIn the steep Atlantic stream.

A heaven on earth.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life

His spirit was sweeping like the wind over Elysian Fields and flashing into point after point on celestial quail.

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

The youths all cried out as he disappeared, but a moment later he returned, altered in complexion, changed in figure, and said that a legion of beings clothed in green had seized him and carried him in a circle upwards. 'They showed me strange things of a celestial character and on your cries reaching us they lowered me down to the earth'?