Quotes About Cosmos

We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "Were all word millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.

A golden half-moon graced the black velvet sky, no clouds in sight, allowing a blanket of stars to twinkle in every direction.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Globular clusters!

The whole cosmos is in a man's brains—as much of it, at least, as a man's brains will hold; perhaps it is nowhere else. And when sleep relaxes the will, and there are no earthly surroundings to distract attention—no duty, pain, or pleasure to compel it—riderless Fancy takes the bit in its teeth, and the whole cosmos goes mad and has its wild will of us.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein , he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein , is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.

I asked him if he was leaving anyone behind. He said he'd met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.

He said he'd met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.

The universe is vast and we're its greatest mystery

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects on them, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was never more demonstrable that when he stood looking upward and found himself, a lone individual, serving as the central pole holding up the tarpaulin of sun and clouds, moon and stars, knowing that, lone or abandoned as he might feel, without his support the heavens would fall.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.