Quotes About Cosmos

I would love to go to space, take a view of the Earth, see the stars without the mask or the atmosphere. I think that would be an absolutely amazing experience.

I mean, watching any rocket go up is pretty incredible, but watching a Soyuz go up is something else.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

There are some galaxies that not only teach us things but are just gorgeously beautiful to look at. My favorite example is the Antenne, which is a pair of colliding galaxies.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But that's not what's emphasized.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Whatever happens "here below" is but a pale reflection of what takes place "up above.

We have astronomy here under our feet; the stars are resident with us ...27

This world is painted on a wild dark metal

And if there is a devil,/ Then there must be a god.

Hesse's ultimate message about the unity of the cosmos and the importance of loving the world, not despising it, was censored out by his convictions in the other direction. Hermann Hesse's books were banned after Hitler took power.

The seven planets are freckles...

The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.

Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

Black holes are the ultimate garbage can.

Nothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they'd first thought to wonder at the heavens.

Is a termite mound a construct? Beaver dam? Spaceship? Of course. Were they built by naturally evolved organisms, acting naturally? They were. So tell me how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?

Point of view matters: I see that now, blind, talking to myself, trapped in a coffin falling past the edge of the solar system. I

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality .