11 Great Astronomy Quotes

[Sky Watch]

11. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato

10. To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen Hawking

9. I have… a terrible need… shall I say the word? … of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.
- Vincent van Gogh

8. Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand. It shows us how small is man’s body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.
- Henri Poincare

7. We live in a changing universe and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.
- Timothy Ferris

6. If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
― Johannes Kepler

5. The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

4. Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.
- Lawrence Krauss

3. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened.
-Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

2. It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan

1. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

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