Nicolaus Copernicus 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.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

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.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

Heaven is tens of thousands of leagues from earth. Yet with the help of a few figures, one may determine the positions and trajectories of celestial bodies. So while Being is immense and its manifestations marvelous and limitless, it follows none the less a constant rule.

When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

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 don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

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

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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?