Astronomy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Astronomy.
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“At night astronomers agree.”
“A strange weasel-built creature with a curly tail.”
“The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.”
“L’astronomie est fille de l’oisiveté, la géométrie est fille de l’intérêt”
“Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is.”
“Wikipedia: Astronomy”
“And teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night.”
“There's some ill planet reigns;
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more favorable.”
“And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
The less by night, altern.”
“O how loud
It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!
Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!
An undevout Astronomer is mad.”
“Over the rim of waiting earth the moon lifted with majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings...”
“My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight:
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
The other four in wondrous motion.”
“What to do during the confinement? Become a crater hunter!”
“For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.”
“In that photo ("Pale Blue Dot"), the inner meaning of four centuries of astronomical research is suddenly available to all of us at a glance.”
“L’astronomie … est l’arbitre de la division civile du temps, l'ame de la chronologie et de la géographie, et l’unique guide des navigateurs.”
“If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.”
“It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.”
“Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!”