Quotes About Cosmos

If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

Our actual universe evolves to empty space.

at a deeper level, our anthropocentrism manifests itself as a conviction that human beings somehow matter to the universe.

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else to drown it out at the time?

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the only one we're going to have for a long time

Once upon a time there was no Time.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

I talk to the universe all the time.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.