Astronomy Quotes

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." "You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet." "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." "Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." "Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." "I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream." "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people" "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion" "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." "I'm so high I could eat a star" "The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another." "Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars." "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff" "Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." "I open the scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems" "We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean." "Mars is there, waiting to be reached." "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious."