Quotes & Wishes collections Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
Astronomy is usefulAstronomy 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 Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
By means of microscopic observationBy means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
Daughter of AstronomyO how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! daughter of Astronomy! As undevout Astronomer is mad.
Edward Young Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
From this world to anotherAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
History of receding horizonsThe history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
How small we areAstronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
If there is anythingIf 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 Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
It is a quickener of devotionAstronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.
Horace Mann Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
It’s amazing to meIt’s amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.
Alex Filippenko Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
One of the most noble and exalted questionsDo there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
Albertus Magnus, c. 13th Century Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
The purpose of lifeThe purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
Anaxagoras, 459 BCE Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
The science of the harmony of infinite expanseAstronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
Lord John Russell Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lightThese earthly godfathers of heaven’s light,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
William Shakespeare Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
They should see planets like our EarthA time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Christopher Wren Quotes and wishes: «Astronomy»
What is more beautiful than heaven?The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe’s divine revolutions, the stars’ motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings … for what is more beautiful than heaven?
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