Skywatching Quotes & Sayings

The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. When we look up into the daylight sky, we are not seeing the sun as it currently is but as it was about eight minutes ago, since it takes that long for the light radiating from this familiar star to travel 93 million miles to Earth. Similarly, when the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) receives light waves from the depths of the universe, those waves will have originated from points as far as 76 sextillion (76,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles away. It will have taken those waves some 13 billion years to arrive on earth, meaning they left their source about a million years after the big bang, and roughly nine to ten years before Earth even formed. — Richard Kurin

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As far as we know, we're the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There's complex life all over the place, but we're still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs." Laurence — Charlie Jane Anders

I could still feel the chain that anchored me to Matthew, witch to vampire. — Deborah Harkness

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this - such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice. — Tessa Emily Hall

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on. — Stephen Spender

It has flowered; flowered from vanity, ambition, idealism, passion, loneliness, courage, laziness, the usual seeds — Virginia Woolf

I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks. — Katy Perry

Joy is our
native condition
Let go all non-joy
and there is joy — Ulf Wolf

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. — Danny Gregory