Quotes About Cosmos

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

But at least we have answered one ancient question. We are not alone. The stars will never again be the same to us.

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

Once, I believed that space could have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God's handwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way." - John W. Campbell

And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.

Odafenn szépen, sorban kialudtak a csillagok.

My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman.

an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: "Wormholes in space.

Astronomy was full of such intriguing but meaningless coincidences. The most famous was the fact that, from the Earth, both Sun and Moon have the same apparent diameter.

Call it the Star Gate.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Though that, surely, could not be its ultimate goal, it was aimed squarely at the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the lonely gulfs beyond the Milky Way.

The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics

It goes on forever and forever, and perhaps Something made it. But how you can believe that Something has a special interest in us and our miserable little world—that just beats me.

The billion-year battle against the force of gravity was over.

The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it's full of stars!

And God said: DELETE lines One to Aleph. LOAD. RUN. And the Universe ceased to exist. Then he pondered for a few aeons, sighed, and added: ERASE. It never had existed

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.