Astronomy Quotes

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

Soul, Another, Compels

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Mother

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

Soul, Everyone, Clear

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

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, Fool, Cannot

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

Reality, Doubt, Between

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

Computers, Science, Computer

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

Fun, Astronomer

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

Science, Interested, Physical

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

War, Science, Real

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

Sun, Correct, Planets

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

Best, Place, Wanted

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

Philosophy, Ethics, Four

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

Love, Science, Fantasy

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Edwin Powell Hubble

History, Horizons, Receding

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

Fun, Here, Wanted

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
Octavia Butler

Science, Happy, Interest

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

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

Whole, Sky, Radio

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
Brit Marling

Life, Science, Live

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

Used, Star, Interest

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
Charles Francis Richter

Different, Object, Measured

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
Ernst Mach

Time, Nothing, Everything

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

Future, Science, Rather

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss

Religion, Philosophy, Find

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'
Joseph Murray

Live, Wish, Lives

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

Study, Attention, While

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

Beauty, Daily, After

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

Today, Universe, Few

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

Work, Radio, University

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