Best 1519 quotes in «astronomy quotes» category

I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

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

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.

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

I have a love for astronomy; Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.

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

I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

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

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

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

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

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank.

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.

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

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

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

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

The barrier has begun to yield.

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).

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

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.

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

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

223692 people had objected to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea after five weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests.

6,000 Feet: A few people will start showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

40% less oxygen and high radiation levels can do strange things to sea level adapted humans.

8,000 Feet: Various people will be showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

Above them, stars shine in constellations that Jenny recognizes from the ceiling of her father's house, the ones Mom and Dad helped her put up when she was in third grade. Constellations with names like Fire Truck and Ladybug Come Home, constellations that you won't find in any astronomer's catalogue.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions in conjunction with your prior environmental exposures, your health problems, your age, and the area that you grew up in and adapted to.