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| I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars. | Derek Walcott | 1930-, Poet and Playwright, born in West Indies |
| 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. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with ASTRONOMY. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| 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. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| Superstition is to religion what astrology is to ASTRONOMY; the mad daughter of a wise mother. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
