ASTRONOMY

Related Subjects: Astrology, Heavens, Science, Stars, Universe

1. The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.—CICERO
   

2. It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.—ISAAC D'ISRAELI
   

3. The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.—EMERSON
   

4. Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.—HORACE MANN
   

5. Even such a minute instrument as the eye has astonishing powers. On a clear, moonless night it can see quite 6,000,000,000,000 miles into space, provided the object glimpsed is of enormous extent and sufficiently luminous. It can discern about 5,000 individual stars.—G. E. PENDRAY, Men, Mirrors and Stars

6. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.—PLATO, The Republic
   

7. Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.—LORD JOHN RUSSELL
   

8. Although in the last twenty years our knowledge of the sidereal world has more than doubled, the list of things we want to know has trebled or quadrupled leaving us relatively more ignorant than before.—DR. HARLOW SHAPLEY
   

9. It will indeed be interesting to see how many of the things which astronomers have learned during this last century will have to be unlearned in the next.—R. L. WATERFIELD, A Hundred Years of Astronomy
   

10. An undevout astronomer is mad.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts