Top 298 Astronomy Quotes & Sayings

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

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

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

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

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

These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino astronomy. Supernova explosions that are invisible to us because of dust clouds may occur in our galaxy as often as once every 10 years, and neutrino bursts could give us a way to study them.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.

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

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

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

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

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

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

I read a lot of astronomy magazines, and go to a lot of astronomy sites, and physics sites. I love reading about quantum computation and quantum physics. I don't understand it all, but I love reading it over and over again so that I think I have some idea of what they're talking about.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

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

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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.

There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

I want to be an actress and learn astronomy!

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

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

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

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

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

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

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

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

I was drawn to astronomy by a teenage existential quest. Around 13, I was deep into wondering about the meaning of life and what I was doing here. I turned to religion, but that did nothing for me. I got to wondering where was here. So, I began studying astronomy and became enthralled by what I learned.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

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

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

I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

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

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

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