Astronomy

Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is.

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For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

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It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

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Although Uranus and Neptune are superficially twin planets, they are different enough to remind us - as do Venus and Earth - that we still have a lot to learn about the mix of natural laws and historical accidents that formed the planets and fashioned their destinies.

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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

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Over the rim of waiting earth the moon lifted with majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings...

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If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.

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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

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A strange weasel-built creature with a curly tail.

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It's unique because it doesn't look like a comet with the typical tail; it looks like a cloud. It's not what you would normally see at all … With the naked eye, it looks like a star or planet, but with binoculars it's really weird looking; it doesn't happen every day.

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I subscribe to Jastrow’s view that modern astronomy has found reliable evidence that the Universe was created some fifteen to twenty billion years ago ... I find it very moving to see how the evidence for the Creation .\xa0.\xa0. should be so clearly stamped on everything around us: the rocks, the sky, the radio waves, and on the most fundamental laws of physics.

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And God made two great lights, great for their useThe less by night, altern.

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A fair number of people who go on to major in astronomy have decided on it certainly by the time they leave junior high, if not during junior high. I think it’s somewhat unusual that way. I think most children pick their field quite a bit later, but astronomy seems to catch early, and if it does, it sticks.

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My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight:The other four in wondrous motion.

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These earthly godfathers of heaven's lightsThan those that walk, and wot not what they are.

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And teach me howThat burn by day and night.

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There's some ill planet reigns;With an aspect more favorable.

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Socrates: Shall we set down astronomy among the objects of study? Glaucon: I think so, to know something about the seasons, the months and the years is of use for military purposes, as well as for agriculture and for navigation. Socrates: It amuses me to see how afraid you are, lest the common herd of people should accuse you of recommending useless studies.

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O how loudAn undevout Astronomer is mad.

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