Astronomy Quotes

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

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

Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

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.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

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

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Love is only one fine star away.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

Billions and billions.

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.

The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them