33 Movie Quotes about Astronomy (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 5, 2025

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

21 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)

22 The Sun is the Sun! I can see where it is! -Where it was, pipsqueak! Any school boy knows that light travels at 186300 miles per second. What you see is the Sun's position eight and a half minutes ago.

Quote from The Flight of Dragons (1982)

23 A new star is born, a planet even.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

24 Man, look. Do I believe in God? Yeah, I guess I do. How else can you have the sun, the moon and the stars and _ like that?

Quote from Boyz n the Hood

25 And we have developed our modern system of astronomy from the Greeks. Who, as you know, were very poor scholars.

Quote from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

26 Both these bodies are coming into our solar system. If Bronson's readings are correct, they will destroy the Earth.

Larry Keating as Dr. Cole Hendron in When Worlds Collide (1951)

27 The world will not end. Certainly, these new bodies will pass our planet. Heavenly bodies frequently do. But we are still here.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

28 Science? What sort of science? Astronomy? Chemistry? -Actually, I'm a student of all sciences.

Quote from Back to the Future Part III

29 Oh, tonight is the town festival. I wouldn't dream of having you work on my telescope during such an important occasion. You are planning on attending, aren't you? -Well, actually, ma'am, I don't think... -Yes, of course, the festival.

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

30 It's going to be quite a frost tonight, Warnie. -Too many stars. Confuses me.

Quote from Shadowlands