Astronomy quotes

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◆ Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson100

◆ Sometimes I think of the sun and the moon as lovers who rarely meet, always chase, and almost always miss one another. But once in a while, they do catch up, and they kiss and the world stares in awe of their eclipse.

- 100

◆ No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

- Michael O'Muircheartaigh99

◆ A star shines on the hour of our meeting.

- Elvish Greeting99

◆ Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space, they're going to be descended from predators

- Michio Kaku99

◆ Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the prospect is staggering!

- CClarke99

◆ That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

- Dr Carl Sagan99

◆ 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 Rusk99

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

- Edward O Wilson99

◆ Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

- Voltaire99

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

- Plato99

◆ The world is my country, science is my religion.

- Christiaan Huygens99

◆ Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

- Christopher Columbus99

◆ The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

- J Paul Getty99

◆ For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be

- Alfred Lord Tennyson99