What does astronomy tell us about the starry firmament above ?

This program, like so many educational or cultural Israeli Palestinian partnerships, began in starry eyed idealism.

A country has hope when it has liberated thought and diverse culture. Only till then people can look at the starry sky peacefully, while staying on solid ground.

What Tony sees in that moment is the project of philosophy, the project that begins in wonder what Kant called admiration and awe at the starry sky above and the moral law within.

Jeffrey Sachs s new book The End of Poverty argues that with proper help from advanced countries the world could see the end of poverty as we know it in coming decades, prompting some to describe him as a starry eyed idealist.

Melbourne The eighteenth century German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote Two things fill the heart with ever renewed and increasing awe and reverence, the more often and more steadily we meditate upon them the starry firmament above and the moral law within.

By expanding our grasp of the vastness of the universe, science has, if anything, increased the awe and reverence we feel when we look up on a starry night (assuming, that is, that we have got far enough away from air pollution and excessive street lighting to see the stars properly).