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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. -- Plato
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer -- Brian May
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. -- Stephen Leacock
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. -- Martin Ryle
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. -- Edmond Halley
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. -- Paracelsus
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. -- Rebecca West
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
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
Astronomy is written for astronomers -- Nicolaus Copernicus
I'm interested in astrology and astronomy. -- Emm Gryner
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate. -- Sophocles
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer. -- Brian May
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. -- Miles Kington
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. -- John Scott Russell
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. -- Carl Sagan
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. -- William Whewell
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. -- Simon Newcomb
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another -- Plato
Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. -- Cornelius Lanczos
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! -- Edward Young
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. -- Fred Hoyle
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. -- Elizabeth Moon
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. -- Johannes Kepler
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. -- Henry Beston
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. -- Richard A. Proctor
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. -- Jacob Bronowski
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. -- James Joyce
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
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy. -- G. H. Hardy
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity. -- Benjamin Silliman
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen. -- John N. Bahcall
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. -- Victor Hugo
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion. -- Horace Mann
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. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy. -- John Donne
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down. -- Albert Goldbarth
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are -- Edward O. Wilson
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. -- Terry Pratchett
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Dijkstra
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. -- Richard Dawkins
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother -- Voltaire
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. -- Richard P. Feynman
I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. -- Sonu Nigam
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933. -- Honor Harger
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
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
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
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
While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls. -- Seth Shostak
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something -- Dean Rusk
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. -- Stephen Hawking
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
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp. -- Brian May
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. -- Nancy Roman
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
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
It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. -- Seth Shostak
How can you shine among darkness? Just be yourself and always try to become better than who you were yesterday. It's that simple. Listen to your heart, and start doing what it's asking you to do..and be aware of your mind because it may want to stop you. Don't let anything or anyone stop you from shining and doing what you are supposed to do on earth. -- Nancy Ebrahim
At night the sky is pure astronomy. -- Nicole Krauss
The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy. -- Martin Luther
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. -- Leonard Roy Frank
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. -- E. O. Wilson
System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. -- Fred Brooks
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. -- Nicholas of Cusa
Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science -- Steven Magee
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. -- Peter De Vries
System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night. -- Fred Brooks
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. -- Ken MacLeod
The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God. -- Heber Doust Curtis
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. -- Phil Plait
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy. -- Otto E. Neugebauer
People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy -- Martin Luther
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. -- Richard Dawkins
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Richet
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Francis Richter
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic. -- Rumi
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.. -- Voltaire
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth. -- Edgar Mitchell
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. -- Sally Ride
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. -- Roger Bacon
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. -- Christopher Hitchens
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus . -- Alfred North Whitehead
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. -- Andre Dubus
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy. -- Johannes Kepler
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. -- John Herschel
I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts. -- Sonu Nigam
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. -- Lorenzo Ghiberti
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. -- John Calvin
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
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment. -- Alastair Reynolds
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist). -- Nigel Calder
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D. -- Timothy Leary
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things. -- Plato
The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still. -- Martin Luther
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. -- Galileo Galilei

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