Quotes About Cosmos

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

The universe has always been there is no beginning there is no end.

the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

He says there are millions of stars, Raba. Millions.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

An explosion in space makes no sound, as there is no air to transmit the sound waves.

We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.

We humans are confined to our brane.

so matter as we know it gets stretched and squeezed out of existence.

The multiverse is an extraordinary place,

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

We are made up of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.

There are frontiers where we are learning, and our desire for knowledge burns. They are in the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, at the origins of the cosmos, in the nature of time, in the phenomenon of black holes, and in the workings of our own thought processes. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.