Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

We do have, and will continue to have an unquenchable curiosity to understand our Solar System.

… it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I've always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.