- May
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Astronomical Quotes
Lines spanning cosmic scale and scientific wonder.
These quotes use "astronomical" both scientifically and poetically, from explaining once-mysterious sky events to a symbolic lotus-flower cosmology. See Astronomy.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Escape
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape.
- Living
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.
- Happenings
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
- My Own
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.
- Art
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
- Information
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
- Most
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020