Quotes About Cosmos

he suffered from an incurable malady which, it seemed, attacked only homo sapiens among all the intelligent races of the universe. That disease was religious mania. Throughout

He had lost his race. And he knew that he had lost it, not by the few weeks or months that he had feared, but by millennia. The huge and silent shadows driving across the stars, more miles above his head than he dared to guess, were as far beyond his little Columbus as it surpassed the log canoes of paleolithic man. [...] All that the past ages had achieved was as nothing now: only one thought echoed and re-echoed through Reinhold's brain: The human race was no longer alone.

Gezegenlere bir gün hükmedebilirsiniz. Ama y?ld?zlar insanlara göre deÄŸil.

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth.

But, of course, that's just how the Earth operates—on a slightly larger scale.

I'm only an ex-astronomer;

the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death….

The stars are not for Man.

everything in space-time that will later become our universe is contained in that small volume producing the awesome light.

My God -- it's full of stars!

He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and, in the moment of success, the stars—the aloof, indifferent stars—had come to him.

He had made the journey from star to man, across the immense desert of the cosmos to the lonely oasis of the human soul.

Two possibility exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

faktem byÅ'o, i? cierpiaÅ' na nieuleczalnÄ… chorobÄ™, która jak siÄ™ wydawaÅ'o, spoÅ›ród wszystkich inteligentnych ras zamieszkujÄ…cych wszechÅ›wiat atakowaÅ'a tylko gatunki homo sapiens. TÄ… chorobÄ… byÅ'a mania religijna.

holographic principle.

forth in the equatorial plane were the brilliant stars

There was only one Eye, though it had many projections into spacetime. And it had many functions.

Here was age inconceivable—but not death, for the Moon had never lived—until now.

for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star

oh my God - it's full of stars!

mundos que en cualquier otra parte hubiesen sido considerados como planetas por propio derecho, pero que allí eran simplemente satélites de un amo gigante.

Para todos os outros olhos, Saturno sempre havia mostrado todo o seu disco iluminado, inteiramente virado para o Sol. Agora ele era um arco delicado, com os anéis formando uma linha fina que o cortava - como uma flecha prestes a ser disparada, na face do próprio Sol. Também na linha dos anéis estava a estrela brilhante de Titã, e às fagulhas mais fracas das outras luas.

What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

On the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.