Quotes About Cosmos

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.

a star a tree and the longing in between

The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough.

Why do I go outside at one a.m. and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Let me tell you this: The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world !

all energy—that it extends into space at the

What kind of god would allow the starlight from distant stars to continue forever, even after the star has 'died,'--a fundamental premise of contemporary astrophysics--yet would not provide the same opportunity for our personal biophotons?

In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.     ââ'¬â€Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (1992)

If you had a piece of neutron star about the size of a grape, it would weigh 100 million tonnes.

The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything's made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn't make us insignificant, because we are the Cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe understands itself. And for me, our true significance lies in our ability to understand and explore this beautiful universe.

So if we assume we are not the only civilisation in the galaxy, then at least a few others must have arisen billions of years ahead of us. But where are they?

Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil'.

dwarf galaxies, have as few as ten million stars. The biggest, the giants, have been estimated to contain in the region of 100 trillion.

This is the current state of our Sun, happily converting 600 million tonnes of hydrogen every second into helium to counteract the inward pull of gravity.

Bruno believed that the universe is infinite and filled with an infinite number of habitable worlds. He also believed that although each world exists for a brief moment when compared to the life of the universe, space itself is neither created nor destroyed; the universe is eternal.

The Universe is always expanding.

we now suspect that Mercury, the innermost planet, began life much further out and was deflected inwards to its present-day seared orbit.

Genesis 1 likewise finds its conclusion in Yahweh's taking up his rest. As developed earlier, "rest" does not imply relaxation, but more like achieving equilibrium and stability. He is making a place of rest for himself, a rest provided for by the completed cosmos. Inhabiting his resting place is the equivalent to being enthroned—it is connected to taking up his role as sovereign ruler of the cosmos.