Quotes About Vastness

The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it.

Since we know the universe itself was once very small—perhaps smaller than a proton—this means something quite remarkable. It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature. From that moment on, vast amounts of energy were released as space itself expanded—a place to store all the negative energy needed to balance the books.

Therefore, a human is equivalent to about fifty Harry Potter books, and a major national library can contain about five million books – or about ten trillion bits.

contains on average some one hundred billion stars. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature.

the universe is not infinite in space, but neither does space have any boundary.

dan kesadaran mengenai betapa kecilnya planet kita sendiri di tengah luasnya alam semesta, hanyalah titik awal.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.

Studding the indigo sky were thousands and thousands of stars. On nights like this, you could almost feel the planet moving on its axis.

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

Life is as large as you explore it.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Six thousand feet above men and time ...

of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.