top of page
Exlpore more Astronomy quotes

"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."

"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."

"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."

"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."

"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."

"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."
Explore more quotes by Brian May

"I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid."

"Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect."

"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band."

"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it."

"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured."

"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever."
bottom of page