Flying Lotus Quotes

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments

All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the sun is the center of the universe.

I have a thing about stars, they are my favourite motif.

I am not afraid of star names.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.