Quotes About Cosmos

the entire universe contained in a single point, a singularity, where the mass is enormous, the volume zero, the density infinite, and the parking impossible.

Ptolomeo tenía razón después de todo: el universo gira en torno del centro de la Tierra. ¡Pero lo mismo puede decirse de cualquier otro punto del universo!

La madera y el verdor, la raíz y la sangre, el viejo y el niño avanzan compañeros, como sobre un camino, por ese tiempo que les está uniendo. Ambos hombro con hombro, en extremos opuestos de la vida, mientras la luna se mueve acariciándoles, entre el remoto girar de las estrellas.

What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we're nothing. We're dirt. On the other hand, we're the reason the universe was made.

A lie among the stars Is a comfortable lie.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

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The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.

Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias no Universo. Isso me ajudava a manter a cabeça no lugar.

My God, it's full of stars," I heard a disembodied voice say. I recognized it as a sound bite from the film 2010.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star . One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Ileana: la Galaxia de Andrómeda, a 700 000 años luz, que se puede mirar a simple vista en una noche clara, está más cerca que tú. Otros ojos solitarios estarán mirándome desde Andrómeda, en la noche de ellos. Yo a ti no te veo. Ileana: la distancia es tiempo, y el tiempo vuela. A 200 millones de millas por hora el universo se está expandiendo hacia la Nada. Y tú estás lejos de mí como a millones de años.

La luz que es energía y no materia. El big-bang creó la energía y la energía creó materia. También materia invisible a tu alrededor y dentro de ti. De átomos de estrellas tú... Y entre tú y el firmamento no hay línea divisoria.

Die Menschenordnung gleicht dem Kosmos darin, daß sie von Zeit zu Zeiten, um sich von neuem zu gebären, ins Feuer tauchen muß.

Alle Ziele sind vergänglich, nur die Bewegung ist ewig, und sie bringt unaufhörlich herrliche und unbarmherzige Schauspiele hervor. Sich in ihre erhabene Zwecklosigkeit versenken zu können wie in ein Kunstwerk oder wie in den gestirnten Himmel, das ist nur wenigen vergönnt.

obviously it matters little if we think of the earth as turning about on its axis, or if we view it at rest while the fixed stars revolve around it. Geometrically these are exacly the same case of a relative rotation of the earth and the fixed stars with respect to one another.