Astronomy Quotes - Page 2

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

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

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.

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

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

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

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

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.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

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.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

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

Billions and billions.

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!

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.

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

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

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

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

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

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.