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Quotes About Expansion

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~ Jean Houston
Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.
~ Paul Stamets
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
~ Jose Clemente Orozco
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
~ Steven Wright
Relativity can, for instance, explain that the universe had once been clumped into a dense fireball. But it can never explain how matter actually behaved.
~ Alan Guth
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
~ Janelle Monae
If you consider the universe one second after the Big Bang, the expansion rate would have to have been just right to an accuracy of 15 decimal places, or else the universe would really not work.
~ Alan Guth
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
~ Walter Jon Williams
The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
~ Saul Perlmutter
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
~ Michael Behe
Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation, and it's connected to everything.
~ Jon Batiste
I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.
~ Kip Thorne
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
~ Saint-John Perse
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
~ Sean Astin
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
~ Terry Brooks
We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
~ Neil Young
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
~ Larry Wall
I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.
~ Ridley Scott
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
~ Brian Greene
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
~ Brian Greene
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
~ Seth Shostak
Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.
~ Shiv Nadar
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
~ Charles Vest