Quotes About Cosmos

Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.

Baryons don't expand when the universe expands.

I've sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the behavior of what's around them—light and matter being distorted by immense forces within the collapsing star. Have I seen and yet not seen certain events that hint at deep

Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time," he said.

In space, distance was time, and time was distance.

The physical laws of the universe were in effect long before the pharaohs. The ancients were aware of many and knew how to use some. Much of that knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages. A lot of that wisdom remains to be rediscovered.

the creational monotheism of the Bible and of the church seems to logically require something like a prehistoric fall, regardless of how we interpret the Chaoskampf material of the Old Testament. Assuming that there is one eternal Creator God who is all-good and all-powerful, it is illogical to posit a foundational structural evil within the cosmos (which

the Ocean of Night (1977) Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) Tides of Light (1989) Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)

We are made out of stars, you and I.

Of course, what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights.

Our bodies are the children of all the suns and other stars that died before us, making the atoms that we are made of.

The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And

Ka?de uderzenie ludzkiego serca jest kosmosem mo?liwo?ci

As the universe expanded and cooled down, these very tiny bits of things came together to make particles. Then the particles came together to make the first of the atoms. Then the atoms came together to make molecules. Then the molecules came together to make the first of the stars. Those first stars went through their cycles, and exploded in a shower of new atoms. The new atoms came together to make more stars and planets. All the stuff we are made of came from those dying stars.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own.

We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.

Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.