Astronomy Quotes - Page 11

• For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

  Plato

  Thinking, Soul, Looks

  9 Copy quote

• Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Reading, Science, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

  William Whewell

  Science, World, Ancient

  William Whewell (1847). “History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period”, p.96

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

  Tony Benn

  Party, Taken, Psychology

  5 Copy quote

• No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Order, Knowing

  7 Copy quote

• Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.

  John Herschel

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Outlines of Astronomy (p. 548)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Two, Earth

  Proceedings of the Geological Survey of London. "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, p. 873, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  Philosophy, School, Science

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

  10 Copy quote

• After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho Against Ursus With Essays on its Provenance and Significance". Book by N. Jardine, 1984.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Science, Kepler, Tests

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Daughter, Science, Geometry

  5 Copy quote

• Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, What Matters, Glasses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Heaven, Magnificence

  6 Copy quote

• I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Spring, Believe, Taken

  5 Copy quote

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

  Ken MacLeod

  Superstitious

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Magic, Paleontology, Tissues

  12 Copy quote

• I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

  Sonu Nigam

  Phones, Facts, And Love

  12 Copy quote

• Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Art, Suffering, Jurisprudence

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Opportunity, Wife, Wildlife

  4 Copy quote

• I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Reading, Doing Nothing, Wildlife

  6 Copy quote

• Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Stars, Long Ago

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Reading, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Political, Sound

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source