(41 quotes found)
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another”
Plato
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology”
Rebecca West
“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.”
Galileo Galilei
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“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
“Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.”
Stephen Leacock
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother”
Voltaire
“It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.”
Edward O. Wilson
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.”
“This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.”
Edmond Halley
