Elizabeth Moon
Science Fiction Author
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
Astronomy quotes
Astronomy
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer, Mathematician
"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.'"
Brian May
Musician, Astrophysicist
"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"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."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"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."
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"Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse."
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"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible."
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"The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory."
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"I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity."
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"Billions and billions."
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"Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate."
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"Astronauts: rotarians in outer space."
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"...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy."
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"There does, in fact, appear to be a plan."
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"I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first."
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"Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money."
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"The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy."
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