M. C. Escher Quotes

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of the motion of the earth. I found it a remarkable thing.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

There's no night without stars.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.