38 Movie Quotes about Astronomy (+ Sound Clips)

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Memorable quotes about astronomy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.

Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

2 It's the real thing. A radio signal from another world.

Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson in Independence Day (1996)

3 Astronomy is more than mere fun. It helps give us a sense of proportion. Reminds us how little we are really. People tend to forget that sometimes.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

4 Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are: Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.

Douglas Spencer as Scotty in The Thing from Another World

5 Look, there was a time when people thought the Earth was a level plain between two mountains that were set there to hold up the sky. And that the stars were lamps hung from that sky.

Richard Carlson as John Putnam in It Came from Outer Space

6 What do you mean, you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind. It's only four light years away, you know.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

7 But where could the moon be when there is no sky? For that matter, where am I?

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 Say, what's all this moon talk?

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 In 18 years precisely, the planets will align ever so nicely.

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules

10 Astronomy is a very exact science. -Maybe so, but when they start telling me doomsday is just around the corner, we part company.

Richard Derr as David Randall in When Worlds Collide (1951)