Quotes About Cosmos

The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.

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.

What could be lonelier than a child in space?

That you see a star in the night sky does not mean that the star sees you. The universe does not mirror consciousness. Consciousness mirrors the universe.

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1]

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.

Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun.

We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

I honestly believe in a force that's larger than our own.

Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.

In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns...

Natura est deus in rebus

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

it is almost as though someone in those vast spaces is trying to communicate a message of good will, for even the names of the stars are friendly. Venus is any woman we love, the Bears are the bears of childhood

We are consciousness incarnated in stardust

All things in this grand universe are linked to one another by invisible threads, even those things that appear as opposites.