Seth Shostak Quotes

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

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

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

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

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.

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

I lost the ball in the moon.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe

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.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

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.

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

In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

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

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

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

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.