“I would love to have been able to give my wife a ring with a little bit of the Moon. It would have been unique.”

Buzz Aldrin

“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

Douglas Adams (1952 DC - 2001 DC) em “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”

“Deep sky is, of all visual impressions, the nearest akin to a feeling.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 DC - 1834 DC)

“Tycho’s observations were generally accurate to 1/30°, five times better than the best previous measurements. Perhaps Tycho’s measurements were aided by his ability to remove his nose and align his eye more perfectly.”

Simon Singh

“Camelopardalis is the absence of a constellation.”

Dalmiro F. Brocchi

Esta é das constelações mais pálidas que podemos ver no céu. Em céus atacados por poluição luminosa é virtualmente impossível vermos Camelopardalis. Não é uma constelação fácil de observar mesmo em céus de magnitude limite 6.

“We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.”

Timothy Ferris

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde (1854 DC - 1900 DC)

“I have my own views about Nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his opinions upon the Milky Way.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 DC - 1930 DC)

“The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”

Thomas Hardy (1840 DC - 1928 DC)

“Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles”

Richard Dawkins