Quotes tagged ‘Astronomy’

“Lisa: Remember, Dad. The handle of the Big Dipper points to the North Star. Homer: That's nice, Lisa, but we're not in astronomy class. We're in the woods.”

— John Swartzwelder, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com

“Kyle Anderson: Maybe I can just hang here in class with you? Mandy Baxter: Okay, I guess. Are you sure you won't be bored? Kyle Anderson: Are you kidding me? I love astronomy. Have you got into Capricorns yet? Mandy Baxter: Oh, this is Intro to Astronomy. I'm pretty sure they get to horoscopes next…”

— Michael Shipley, Kyle Anderson, Christoph Sanders, imdb.com

“Stars are better off without us.”

— Dan Nowak, Detective Josephus Miller, Thomas Jane, imdb.com

“Zorya: You keep giving away your life. You don't much care if you live or die do you? Shadow: The world's not what I thought it would be. Zorya: You'd rather die than live in a world with bears in the sky.”

— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com

“Shadow: What are you looking at up there? Zorya: I was looking at that. See? Shadow: The big dipper? Zorya: Odin's Wain, they call it. And the Great Bear. It is a thing. It's not a god. Like a god. It's a bad thing. Chained up in those stars. If it escapes, it will eat the whole of everything. So we…”

— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com

“Sabrina: Are you kidding? I’d love to meet the Violent Femmes! When? Where? Harvey: Well, they’ll be signing CD’s at Music City in Boston tonight at midnight. Sabrina: Midnight! That’s perfect. I have no conflicting plans. But I still have to ask my aunts. Harvey: Just tell them what I told my paren…”

— Nell Scovell, Harvey Kinkle, Nate Richert, imdb.com

“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”

— Galileo Galilei, amazon.com

“Many of us suspect that all of this—all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe—is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end.”

— Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Not that anybody asked, but Gregorian calendar rules unintentionally prevent eclipses from ever occurring on Easter Sunday.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“There are something like a trillion galaxies in the observable universe, of a range of sizes. And galaxy collisions happen a lot. In fact, galaxies primarily grow by cannibalizing other (smaller) galaxies. Our own has eaten several—we can see streams of stars as debris. In fact, galaxies primarily g…”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“I mean OK the fact that we can WATCH THE SUN VIBRATE & figure out what’s inside, that’s cool, but we can also do this for OTHER STARS. It’s called asteroseismology & it’s kind of blowing my mind today.”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“A 'hypernova' is a supernova (exploding star), but, like, more so. (It’s defined as being any supernova that’s at least 10 times as luminous as usual.)”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“A 'cataclysmic variable' is where a compact dense white dwarf star is in a binary orbit with a bigger puffier star & the WD (white dwarf) rips material off its companion & that material detonates on the WD’s surface.”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“'Violent relaxation' comes from highly technical uses of both those terms. “Relaxation” referring to a system (eg, stars in a cluster) achieving some equilibrium (steady) state, and “violent” meaning rapid. It can happen when mass comes together quickly gravitationally.”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“'Spaghettification'” is what happens to you when you fall into a black hole feet first (for instance) and the gravity is so much stronger on your feet than your head that you’re stretched out to some kind of spaghetti-like carnage-shape.”

— Katie Mack, twitter.com

“The total number of stars in the universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“One of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

— Tom Wolfe, volokh.com