Umberto Guidoni Quotes

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 am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

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.

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

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of the motion of the earth. I found it a remarkable thing.

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.

I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

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

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.