Quotes by Astronomers

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.
Isaac Newton
But it does move.
Galileo
The father of his country.
Francis Bailey
Tomorrow! - Why tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
Omar Khayyám
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
Omar Khayyám
We are always beginning to live but are never living.
Manilius
You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Yet Ah that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again who knows?
Omar Khayyám
I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell And by and by my Soul returned to me And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Omar Khayyám
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
Omar Khayyám
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.
Omar Khayyám
0 thou who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin.
Omar Khayyám
For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
Maria Mitchell
Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.
Maria Mitchell
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
James Jeans
We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyám
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot?
Omar Khayyám
Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.
James F. Bell
A book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F. Bell
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
Omar Khayyám
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyám
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot?
Omar Khayyám
Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.
James F. Bell
A book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F. Bell
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
Omar Khayyám
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyám
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought his life a breath of God.
Francis Bailey
The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Francis Bailey
And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
Omar Khayyám
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
Omar Khayyám
It matters not how long we live but how.
Francis Bailey
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.
Omar Khayyám
Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.
Omar Khayyám
There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyám
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Omar Khayyám
One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Omar Khayyám
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.
Fred Hoyle
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Francis Bailey
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.
Omar Khayyám
Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire!
Omar Khayyám
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Omar Khayyám
Tis of the tears which stars weep sweet with joy.
Francis Bailey
Ah take the cash and let the credit go.
Omar Khayyám