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.
Astronomy
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
Astronomy
Milton, John
1608-1674 British Poet
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Astronomy
Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
These earthly godfathers of Heaven’s lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
Astronomy
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don’t work, I study the stars.
Astronomy
Walcott, Derek
1930 Poet and Playwright born in West Indies
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
Astronomy
Whitman, Walt
1819-1892 American Poet