New stars offer to the mind a phenomenon more surprising, and less explicable, than almost any other in the science of astronomy. – George Adams
How is it that the sky feeds the stars? – Lucretius
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear. – Horace
It is a pity, in an age of rockets and space telescopes, that so few people have a direct acquaintance with the stars. Learning the stars and following their nightly courses across the sky brings a deep satisfaction born of familiarity with something both ancient and ageless. – Richard Berry
For my part I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. – Arthur Eddington
You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
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
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. – H. G. Wells
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