Astronomy Quotes – Insightful Reflections on the Cosmos

"Three things remain with us from paradise: the stars of the night, the flowers of the day, and the eyes of children."

Dante Alighieri

"Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as ‚the Jesuit Science.’"

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

But if you ask an astronomer why is the Sun of gas just ask them why is the Sun of gas it's a very simple question and they actually will not be able to answer the question except to say it's too hot to be anything but a gas if you get the Sun wrong you'll get all of astronomy wrong so it's extremely important that we set the phase of the Sun correctly accepting a new phase for the Sun will lead to the collapse of modern astronomy.”

Now the attempt apparent temperature the Sun is obviously nothing but the temperature of the solar rays now he's talking about the the continuous spectrum depending entirely on the nature of the Rays and hence a property of the Rays and not of the property of the Sun itself so he's telling you this is not a property of the Sun here therefore it would not it would be not only more convenient but also more correct to apply this notation directly instead of speaking of a fictitious temperature of the son which can be made to have meaning only by the introduction of an assumption that does not hold in reality.

Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille

"My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings."

Aleister Crowley

"Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated."

Max Weber

"The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of the universe. We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. It is a notion that is, in fact, utterly absurd, yet terribly important. Those so-called rational assumptions flow from this initial impossible situation. Western religion has its own singularity in the form of the apocalypse, an event placed not at the beginning of the universe but at its end. This seems a more logical position than that of science. If singularities exist at all it seems easier to suppose that they might arise out of an ancient and highly complexified cosmos, such as our own, than out of a featureless and dimensionless mega-void."

Terence McKenna

"Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool."

Philip Plait

"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder"

Philip Plait

"The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it."

Philip Plait

"Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright."

Philip Plait

"They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that."

Philip Plait

"Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none."

Philip Plait

"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."

Voltaire

"With the insights of modern physics, natural science has reached a point where it must abandon the idea that it could explain everything."

Hans-Peter Dürr

"Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science."

Steven Spielberg

"Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination."

Stephen Hawking

"The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation."

Fred Hoyle