Astronomy Quotes

The eye is not a source of light, but rather a receiver of light.

The motion of the sun's apogee, as observed by us, is 1 degree in 66 years, which is 1 minute in 1 year, and 1 second in 1 month.

He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which has taken place in the past, and that which will take place in the future.

The diameter of the Sun is to the diameter of the Earth as 19 to 3.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It was a completely new type of astronomical object. I was very excited, but also very worried, because it was so unexpected.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

We are like children who have found a puzzle, and we are trying to put it together, but we don't know what the picture is supposed to be.

The heavens are spherical, and move as a sphere.

Let no one who is not a geometer enter here.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.