Astronomy Space Quotes

#1. The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#2. The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight

Isaac Asimov

#3. We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

William Herschel

#4. The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Carl Sagan

#7. The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

#9. Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

Carl Sagan

#10. Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Johannes Kepler

#11. I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.]

William Herschel

#12. If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. [Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.]

Walter Baade

#14. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jill Tarter

#15. When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Mark Twain

#17. From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#18. By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Carl Sagan

#19. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

George Gordon Byron

#20. I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard - explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is get the same result as everybody else and you won't make any discoveries, you'll just confirm what's already known.

David Jewitt

#22. Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air, made it into a liquid, put some impurities in a ruby, attached a magnet, and detected the fires of creation.

Carl Sagan

#24. Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph]

William Herschel

#25. While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.

Steven Magee

#26. It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. The Age of the Stars had come to an end. Once in a billion years, a feeble supernova illuminated the vestiges of its home; brown dwarfs, neutron stars, blackholes ... lifeless echoes of their former majesty.

Jake Vander Ark

#28. My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

J. August Richards

#29. Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Jean M. Auel

#31. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

Kim Newman

#32. People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.

Munia Khan