Astronomy sayings
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- Jodi Picoult99◆ 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 Sagan99◆ The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
- Carl Sagan99◆ Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson99◆ Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
- Pierre Laplace99◆ The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
- Carl Sagan99◆ At night the sky is pure astronomy.
- Nicole Krauss99◆ 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 Erikson99◆ My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
- H.G. Wells99◆ In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.
- Ernst Mayr99◆ We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- Tombstone Epitaph99◆ 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.
- Ptolemy99◆ With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
- Ransom K Ferm99◆ God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
- Giordana Bruno99◆ We live in a changing universe and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.
- Timothy Ferris99
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