Astronomy Quotes

Astronomy`s much more fun when you`re not an astronomer.

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

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.

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

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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

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