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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another’s, but under nature everything belongs to all

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Goods are meant for all.

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

Mars does not belong to 'America,' nor to Earth, nor to human beings.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.