Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Powell Hubble

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Galileo Galilei

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.

Norm Negus

When he came to me wanting to do something in astronomy, I got excited. Astronomy is my first love in science. But he wanted to buy a big telescope which we couldn't afford.

Carl Sagan

Billions and billions.

Joseph Murray

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Bill Cooke

It has become quite obvious in recent years that our nomenclature in astronomy is not keeping pace with our discoveries.

John Taylor

I majored in physics at IU. But I took a whole lot of astronomy classes. I thought it would be great to have a solar telescope ... be able to see things during the day with the students.

Sonu Nigam

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

Richard P. Feynman

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Margaret Geller

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

Albert Einstein

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Stephen Hawking

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Bellamy Young

The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.

Deepak Chopra

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

Dave Freer

Such as a universe that is not made of dead, mute, inert matter.

Barry Lopez

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Carl Sagan

We are the universe experiencing itself.

Carl Sagan

Your god is too small for my universe.

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.