Tycho Brahe Quotes

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

What a strange turn of events.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.