Astronomy Quotes

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • NASA

• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Star
  • System
  • Astronomy

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Science
  • Church
  • Religion

• This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Sight
  • Far
  • Astronomy

• There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Universe
  • Chemistry
  • Astronomy

• We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Know
  • Limit
  • Astronomy

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

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Bread
  • Provide
  • Astronomy

• I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • Math
  • Astronomy

• Astronomy is a science in which you are not able to touch anything you study.

  

  Allan Sandage
  • Study
  • Touch
  • Astronomy

• So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Fool

• For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

  

  John Calvin
  • Arts
  • Treated
  • Astronomy

• Houston, we have a good deploy. Chandra is ready to open the eyes of X-ray astronomy to the world.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Houston
  • X-Ray
  • Deploy

• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Atheism

• I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Literature

• There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Political
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

  

  Sonu Nigam
  • Learn
  • Facts
  • Astronomy

• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  

  George Ellery Hale
  • Earth
  • Squares
  • Cosmology

• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Opinion
  • Path
  • Greek

• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Lead
  • Encouragement
  • Surgery

• Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • True
  • Fool
  • Bigger

• Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Beginning
  • Considered
  • Background

• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Geometry
  • Inventor

• Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

  

  Sophocles
  • Understand
  • Astronomy
  • Investigate

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