French Astronomer Quotes

We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.

The new and the old methods complete one another on numerous points, and their simultaneous use will increase our knowledge of the outer atmosphere of the Sun much more rapidly.

The sun is but a star; he will meet with the fate of his sisters; suns, like worlds, are born to die, and in eternity their long career will have endured but ' the space of a morning.'

Camille Flammarion

Einstein may be a treasure, but there is a fearsome troop of mathematical reptiles keeping inquisitive folk away from it; though there can be no doubt that they have, like our Gothic gargoyles, a hidden, beauty of their own.

Charles Nordmann

I have searched through the heavens, and nowhere have I found a trace of God.

Jérôme Lalande