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Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
— Richard A. Proctor
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph] — William Herschel
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph] — William Herschel
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
— Steven Magee
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.
— Munia Khan
The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.
— Steven Erikson
...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.
{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.} — Pierre-Simon Laplace
{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.} — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Light brings us the news of the Universe.
— William Henry Bragg
The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.
— John Pipkin
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
— Rebecca West
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
We are made of star material, and every atom of matter on Earth originated in the core of a star.
— Margaret Robertson
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
— Carl Sagan
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
— John Scott Russell
It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.
— John Pipkin
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
— Johannes Kepler
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
— Elizabeth Moon
It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.
— John Pipkin
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
— Sally Ride
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.
— Carl Sagan
[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.
— William Wilson Morgan
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
— Terry Pratchett
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
— Christopher Wren
Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
— Pierre Laplace
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
— Jill Tarter
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
— 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
[Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.] — Walter Baade
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.] — Walter Baade
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
— Edwin Powell Hubble