Astronomy Quotes

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

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.

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

The barrier has begun to yield.

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.

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 is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

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

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

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.

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