39 Movie Quotes about Astronomy (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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.

11 I don't believe in that sort of thing, personally. Astronomy is one of the many tools of the devil.

Kathy Bates as Helen Mama Boucher in The Waterboy (1998)

12 Ah, they're so remote, the stars. Cold and beautiful. Now I wonder... which is the one? The one we have to worry about?

Arthur Franz as Commander "Reef" Holloway in The Atomic Submarine

13 Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I make tonight.

Christian Rub as Geppetto in Pinocchio (1939)

14 The moon is also a goddess, chaste and virginal.

Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

15 There are more stars in the heavens than there are human beings on Earth.

Paul Frees in When Worlds Collide (1951)

16 I gather you're not an astronomer, either. -Me? No, I'm just a high-priced messenger boy who's beginning to have doubts about the sanity of astronomers. They ought to stick to making wrong predictions about the weather.

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

17 Strange, the Dipper's gone. -The Dipper is not gone. It's just behind the clouds.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

18 Thank you for taking care of my telescope. -You're quite welcome.

Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III

19 Someday, spaceships will be traveling from Earth to other planets. How are human beings going to survive on those planets? The atmosphere will be different, the pressures will be different.

Richard Carlson as Dr. David Reed in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

20 We don't entirely rule out the possibility that there might be some form of life on another planet. Then why not some entirely different form of life in a world we already know is inhabited by millions of living creatures?

Richard Carlson as Dr. David Reed in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)