Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato

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

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

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
James Nasmyth

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
Murray Gell-Mann

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
Octavia Butler

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

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

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
Frederick Reines

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.
Michael P. Anderson

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
Emm Gryner

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

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.
Charles Francis Richter

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Jean M. Auel