Quotes About Cosmos

I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky.

far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy. Through

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another." – Aristocles, son of Ariston

Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

Sanki bu dünya bir tek ben vard?m ve o sonsuz y?ld?z yaÄŸmuru.

What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions.

I am in turmoil. The world is so vast and the cosmos more so, yet it is not the things outside of me that leave me so uneasy; it is the things within me.

look up into the night sky and see not the stars but the darkness between them

I feel everything, Calliope tells me as I rest in her metallic arms one night, suspended above an easy sea. I feel not only the sails, but the hull. Not only the ship, but the sea. Not only the sea, but the sky. And not only the sky, but the stars. I feel everything.

black holes generate an amazing amount of light. The problem is, their gravity is so great, the light can't escape—it just gets pulled in along with everything else.

We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.

There are about three hundred billion stars to a galaxy, and more than eighty billion galaxies in the known universe. That means that if only one in a million planets can support life, and one in a million of those actually has life, and one in a million of those planets has intelligent life . . . then there are at least one and a half million civilizations out there.

What do I see when I close my eyes? I see beyond darkness, and it is immeasurably grand both above me and below.

I am in turmoil. The world is vast and the cosmos more so, yet it is not the things outside of me that leave me so uneasy; it is the things within me.

If I exist without form--a soul sparking between a billion different servers--could not the universe itself be alive with a spirit sparking between stars?

el marco negro vuelve la mirada más profunda y singular, confiere al ojo una apariencia más resuelta de ventana abierta sobre el infinito; el colorete, que enciende el pómulo, aumenta aún más la claridad de la pupila y añade a un bello rostro femenino la pasión misteriosa de la sacerdotisa.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

becomes as hot as the sun? Earth, he knew, reflects some heat back into space. But why isn't all of it reflected? What keeps our planet cozily warm, Goldilocks-style, and not too hot or too cold?

Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature man.

Pythagoras concluded that ratios govern not only music but also all other types of beauty. To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty. Understanding nature was as simple as understanding the mathematics of proportions.

We are all truly made of star stuff.18

A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.