But by far the most terrible champion who now appeared was Cardinal Bellarmin, one of the greatest theologians the world has known. He was earnest, sincere, and learned, but insisted on making science conform to Scripture. The weapons which men of Bellarmin’s stamp used were purely theological. They held up before the world the dreadful […]
Astronauts - Astronomy Quotes
Lunar Voyage: Flash, Crash, Stash, Trash, Splash.
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can’t remember where they leave things.
Astronauts are escapists.
People give ear to an upstart astrologer (Copernicus) who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science […]
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.
Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation! (as he joined fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk.)
Observatory, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
“Where are we going?” (Bishop Aringarosa) had demanded of his driver. “Alban Hills,” the man replied. “Your meeting is at Castel Gandolfo.” The Pope’s summer residence? Aringarosa had never been, nor had he ever desired to see it. In addition to being the Pope’s summer vacation home, the sixteenth-century citadel housed the Specula Vaticana – […]
The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.
