Quotes About Cosmos

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

After the emergence of intelligence, the story of any biosphere tended to get a lot simpler. It was a major reason for the silence of the stars.

Stephen Baxter

The candle flickered in the wind of the hurricane... Then, the light of one hundred billion stars burned out.

nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

The Greek word for 'everything that is the case', what we could call 'the universe', is COSMOS. And at the moment - although 'moment' is a time word and makes no sense just now (neither does the phrase 'just now') - at the moment, Cosmos is Chaos and only Chaos because Chaos is the only thing that is the case.

So Einstein was wrong when he said, God does not play dice. Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

God abhors a naked singularity.

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

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.

Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement "God does not play dice.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.

only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: "Why is the universe the way we see it?" The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it. The