Dante Alighieri Quotes

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

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.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

Outside the sky is light with stars

There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces