Quotes About Cosmos

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.

When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. "Let it speak," he says, "the Maker's high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.

Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.

For me, the most profound discovery ever made by us humans is this: You and I, and everything we can touch and see, are made of the same materials and driven by the same energy as everything else in the universe. We are one with each other, with our planet, and with the cosmos. We all resonate to the same beat, and if we put something beautiful into the world, it can spread and grow

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

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?

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Space flight's good for age; I have a lot less wrinkles up here. It's a good place to be as you get older.

Le monde est l'Å"uvre d'un Dieu en délire.

univers venait tout à coup de s'élargir. Elle était le point lumineux où l'ensemble des choses convergeait

Birkaç y?ld?z kayd? birden, dev bir füzenin parabolüne benzer bir ÅŸeyler çizdi. ''Ä°ÅŸte bak dünyalar yok oluyor,'' dedi Bouvard. Gene Pecuchet ald? sözü:''Bir gün bizimki de tepetaklak olursa, y?ld?zlar?n yurttaÅŸlar? bizim ÅŸimdi heyecanland???m?zdan daha fazla heyecanlanmayacaklar. Böyle düÅŸünceler gururunu yerle bir ediyor insan?n.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Don't flatter yourself. We're all specks of dust in the universe.

How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

Once apparently the chief concern and masterpiece of the gods, the human race now begins to bear the aspect of an accidental by-product of their vast, inscrutable and probably nonsensical operations.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.