Astronomy Quotes

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

Plato

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

William Leitch

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

Edward O. Wilson

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

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