Astronomy Quotes

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Nigel Calder

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

Rebecca West

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

Plato

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

Voltaire

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

John Calvin

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit.

Mevlana Rumi

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

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence.

William Leitch

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Copernicus

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Edward O. Wilson

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

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

Rebecca West
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