It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while — Astronomy

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

"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."

"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."

"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."