Astronomy related quotes

"Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night."

Miles Kington

"Astronomy, Benjamin mused, was a lot like a detective story with clues revealed first, and the actual body only later - if ever."

Gregory (Albert) Benford

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Albert Einstein

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

Albert Einstein

"You don't have to be cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier."

Leo Szilard

"The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."

Arthur C. Clarke

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

Arthur C.Clarke

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Carl Sagan

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

Raplh Waldo Emerson

"The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."

Johannes Kepler

"The more the universe seems comphrehensible, the more it also seems pointless."

Steven Weinberg

"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."

Edmund Halley

"No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above."

Michael O'Muircheartaigh

"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

My favourite (not only) astronomy related quotes