30 astronomy phrases that will take you to the stars

Looking at the starry sky reminds us how small we are, how little we know and how vast it all is.

God is the universe, the stars, the tides and the planets farthest from ours. He is the beginning, the middle and the end.

We are not better than the universe, we are part of it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The stars are embedded in our DNA. We are the Universe and that’s where we’re going after all.

Astronomy is useful because it lifts us above ourselves; it is useful because it is big… It shows us how small a man’s body is.

Henri Poincare

Astronomy forces our soul to look up and take us from our world to another.

Plato

Every molecule in our body was once part of a star. How beautiful it is to know that each one is and carries the Universe within them.

Iron from this meteorite and iron from blood have a common origin in the core of a star.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmic religion is the most powerful and most generous motive of scientific research.

Albert Einstein

We are just another planet in the midst of this ordered chaos that is the Universe and yet we feel so big!

I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

It was easier for me to find the laws by which the heavenly bodies move, which are millions of kilometers away, than to define the laws of motion of the water that flows in front of my eyes.

Galileo Galilei

I can’t explain it, but I look at the stars and I feel at home.

An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does impose limits on when that work can have been done.

Stephen Hawking

The universe appears to be neither benevolent nor hostile, just indifferent to the concerns of creatures as insignificant as ourselves.

Carl Sagan

And in spite of everything, the Earth keeps spinning, the stars are rising and dying, and the Universe expanding.

The next time you feel sad, remember that there is a little bit of every star in the universe in you. And, perhaps, you remember its brilliance.

It is the astronomer’s duty to compose the history of celestial motions by careful and experienced study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The brightness of one star does not erase the brightness of another. This is also true for each of us.

We are made of stardust. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

My objective is simple. It’s having a complete understanding of the universe, why it is the way it is and why it exists.

Stephen Hawking

Universes is the perfect combination of chaos and mystery.

The universe wouldn’t be so much a universe if it weren’t for the home of the people you love.

Stephen Hawking

Joyful, though physically and metaphysically alone, he felt the universe. It was raining.

João Guimaraes Rosa

It’s all one big cosmic dance and God is the choreographer!

The Sun is essential for life on Earth, as is the Moon. Never underestimate the power of light over the power of darkness.

The gospel closes with astronomy.

Euclides da Cunha

In the midst of a dark night, remember: it’s just another turn of the Earth around itself.

We are stars named after people.

The stars may be indifferent to us, but that doesn’t mean we need to be indifferent to the stars.