Trevor Paglen Quotes

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

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.'

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

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

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

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

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

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

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.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.

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

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.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.