Astronomy

"The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it."

"And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night."

"L’astronomie … est l’arbitre de la division civile du temps, lame de la chronologie et de la géographie, et l’unique guide des navigateurs."

"My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight: Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion."

"A fair number of people who go on to major in astronomy have decided on it certainly by the time they leave junior high, if not during junior high. I think it’s somewhat unusual that way. I think most children pick their field quite a bit later, but astronomy seems to catch early, and if it does, it sticks."

"I subscribe to Jastrow’s view that modern astronomy has found reliable evidence that the Universe was created some fifteen to twenty billion years ago ... I find it very moving to see how the evidence for the Creation . . . should be so clearly stamped on everything around us: the rocks, the sky, the radio waves, and on the most fundamental laws of physics."

"Although Uranus and Neptune are superficially twin planets, they are different enough to remind us - as do Venus and Earth - that we still have a lot to learn about the mix of natural laws and historical accidents that formed the planets and fashioned their destinies."

"Space is big. Really big. You wont believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is."

"What to do during the confinement? Become a crater hunter!"

"Surtout l’astronomie et l’anatomie sont les deux sciences qui nous offrent le plus sensiblement deux grands caractères du Créateur; l’une, son immensité, par les distances, la grandeur, et le nombre des corps célestes; l’autre, son intelligence infinie, par la méchanique des animaux."

"A strange weasel-built creature with a curly tail."

"L’astronomie est fille de l’oisiveté, la géométrie est fille de l’intérêt"