Celestial Bodies Quotes

• The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Astrology, Causes, World

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• Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.

  Pythagoras

  Character, Elements, Movement

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• The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Moon, Use

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.487, Best Books on

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• I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

  Lauren Beukes

  Stars, Believe, Dna

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media

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• We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Movement, Body, Soil

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• For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let's realize what we're talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

  Rusty Schweickart

  Talking, Survival, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Father, Men

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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• Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

  Lewis Thomas

  Views, Body, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Roots, Together

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• It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Long, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

  William J. Clinton

  God, Science, Understanding

  "Remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Human Genome". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 2000.

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Astrology, Years, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Light

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Heart, Simple

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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• When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Garden, Eden

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50

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• The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can.

  Vasco Ronchi

  Stars, Fall, Clouds

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• The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Science, Dragons

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Data, Body

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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• Talk about celestial bodies.

  Jackson Browne

  Body, Compliment, Celestial

  Song: That Girl Could Sing, Album: Hold Out, 1980

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