Quotes About Cosmos

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

realize that the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects.

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.

The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.

Se recostó contra las colmenas, y levantando al cielo la cara, hizo algunas observaciones a propósito de las estrellas, cuyas frías pulsaciones palpitaban en las negras oquedades de allá arriba, llenas de serena indiferencia respecto a aquellas dos briznas de humanidad.

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel." "Awesome." "Maybe, but it's code's all it is.

I have look'd on Worlds far distant, their Beauty how pitiless.

Outside the sky is light with stars

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe. John A. Wheeler

You're not making too much of this. You will love her until the stars fall.

the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.

It isn't time that folds, it's space.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?". Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

At any time in history, gazillions of lives are being lived simultaneously. In Zimbabwe, Thailand, Tasmania, and Borneo, in the poorest hovel and the richest palace, in the sky and on the moon, the lives of ants, plants, gorillas, and people are going on. But we are generally fixated on that infinitesimal thing in the scope of the universe, ourselves.