Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Astronomy Quotes
AstronomyCosmic PhenomenaCuriosityDestructionScience I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
AstronomyBehavior of Celestial BodiesIce and EvaporationPlanetary ScienceSun's Influence If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
AstronomyCharacter BuildingHumility It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
AstronomyDisaster PreparednessEnvironmental ImpactPlanetary DefenseSpace Hazards If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
AstronomyPerspectiveSoul It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
AstronomyEveryday LifeHumorImaginationScience The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!
AstronomyClassificationInnovationPerspectiveScientific Paradigms Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'
AstronomyPlanetary DefenseRisk ManagementSpace Exploration There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.
AstronomyInspirationPerspectiveTranscendence Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
AstronomyClassificationOrbit DynamicsPlanetary ScienceTransgression Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
AstronomyFuture PlanningSafety and PreparednessSpace ExplorationTechnology and Innovation Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.
AstronomyObservationPerceptionSpectacle The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
AstronomyHumorPerspective The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
