I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Astronomy. . . is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
Billions and billions.
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.
I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise 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.
Astronomy is written for astronomers
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
