An undevout astronomer is mad. [ Young ]

Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night.
Ye gliding ghosts permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state. [ Dryden ]

And teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night. [ William Shakespeare ]

These earthly god-fathers 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 wot not what they are. [ William Shakespeare ]

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. [ Lord John Russell ]

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: a very stupid daughter of a very wise mother. [ Voltaire ]

Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence. [ Leitch ]

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. [ Emerson ]

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]

Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.