Martin Rees Quotes

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.

I have a thing about stars, they are my favourite motif.

I am not afraid of star names.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

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.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

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

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

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

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

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

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect.

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

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?

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.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

I lost the ball in the moon.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

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

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.