Astronomy Quotes

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Nicolaus Copernicus

"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

Nicolaus Copernicus

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."

Edwin Hubble

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.”

Johannes Kepler