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Quotations
On Astronomy
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- The
contemplation of celestial
things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and
magnificently
when he descends to human affairs.—Cicero.
The
sun rejoicing
round the earth, announced
Daily the
wisdom, power
and love of God.
The moon
awoke, and from
her maiden face,
Shedding
her cloudy locks,
looked meekly forth,
And with
her virgin stars
walked in the heavens,—
Walked
nightly there,
conversing as she walked,
Of purity,
and holiness,
and God.
—Robert
Pollok.
- Astronomy
is perhaps the science
whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding
appears
in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small
he is. —G.
C.
Lichtenberg
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- I
don't
pretend to understand
the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am. —Thomas
Carlyle
I
love to rove amidst
the starry height,
To leave
the little scenes
of Earth behind,
And let
Imagination wing
her flight
On eagle
pinions swifter
than the wind.
I love the
planets in
their course to trace;
To mark the
comets speeding
to the sun,
Then launch
into immeasurable
space,
Where, lost
to human
sight, remote they run.
I love to
view the moon,
when high she rides
Amidst the
heav'ns, in
borrowed lustre bright;
To fathom
how she rules
the subject tides,
And how she
borrows from
the sun her light.
O! these
are wonders
of th' Almighty hand,
Whose
wisdom first the
circling orbits planned.
—T. Rodd.
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