Quotes About Cosmos

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

The one thing that really terrifies me is we're going to get a signal from space that clears it all up: 'OK, this is how the universe works, guys.'

We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.

When you really break it down to the way the world works, we're all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That's the reality of our situation. And we've created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Even in empty space, time and space still exist.

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

The space genre is timeless.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I think I think we are all so unique in our own way, and I think we are all just these tiny, little cogs in this incredibly massive, wonderful universe.

Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.

The sun is 91 million miles away; not too far, not too close. Be like that

Not every narrative is an arc. The universe, for example, just keeps expanding.

I look up at the stars, serene and brilliant and out of reach.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Chirst, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life. Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve did what they were supposed to do: they "eikoned." And cracked Eikons are being restored so that they can eikon now and so that they will eikon forever.

the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER

The whole universe is one bright pearl, and there is no need to understand it.

But she suspects that some people's courage stems from the fact that they attach little importance to themselves—and great importance to others. They see themselves as the cosmos might—small to the point of insignificant. But they let others loom large.

We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.