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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, But the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) One of the greatest artists of all times. Painter of The Starry Night (amongst many others) and tormented and tortured soul. Credit: https://depositphotos.com/49703113/stock-photo-starry-night-sky.html His letters give a deep insight into his nature, his thoughts and his dreams. This quote is taken from a letter…
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“Keep your eyes on the stars, but don’t forget that your feet are necessarily on the earth.”
– Theodore Roosevelt (27 October 1858 – 6 January 1919) Theodore Roosevelt Jr, often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as the 25th…
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“Remember to 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. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”
– Professor Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) Dr. Stephen Hawking, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, delivers a speech entitled “Why we should go into space” during a lecture that is part of a series honoring NASA’s 50th Anniversary, Monday, April 21, 2008, at George Washington University’s Morton…
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“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) (Sarah Williams, Poet – December 1837 – 25 April 1868) This quote is often attributed to Galileo, incorrectly. The full poem, with that line, is quoted and fully credited below. Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer who studied speed and velocity, gravity and free…
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“The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.”
— Anaxagoras (499 BC – 428 BC) Anaxagoras was a Greek mathematician, and he was imprisoned for proposing that the moon shines by reflected light from the “red-hot stone” which was the sun, the first such recorded claim. He went on to take the next step and become the first to correctly explain the reason…
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Have you ever wondered how we know the Earth is round?
Because we have photos taken from space, duh! I hear you say. True, but how did we know before space flight? Of course, the Earth isn’t round, it’s more technically accurate to say that it’s an oblate spheroid, though from space it just looks like a big blue ball. Credit Look out your window and…
Stargazing Guy 