Quotes About Cosmos

Without this attraction, every celestial body would move in a straight line. So the universe, then, is a large space where bodies attract one another by means of forces; and there is a universal force, gravity: every body attracts every other body.

to inquire about the ultimate foundation of everything is to ask a question that perhaps simply does not make sense.

Copernicus, gezegenlerin dans?n?n merkezinde dünyan?n de?il, güne?in oldu?unu anlad? ve bunu kan?tlad?. Gezegenimiz di?erleri gibi bir gezegen konumuna geldi.

Yukar?da o kadar büyük bir uzay var ki, çok s?radan bir galaksinin bu ücra kö?esinde özel bir ?eyler oldu?unu dü?ünmek çocukça olur.

There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.

Se il mondo è un un pullulare di effimeri quanti di spazio e di materia, un immenso gioco a incastri di spazio e particelle elementari, noi cosa siamo? [...] Nel grande quadro della scienza contemporanea ci sono molte cose che non capiamo, e una di quelle che capiamo meno siamo noi stessi

Nel mare immenso di galassie e di stelle, siamo un infinitesimo angolo sperduto; fra gli arabeschi infiniti di forme che compongono il reale, noi non siamo che un ghirigoro fra tanti

the world is made entirely from quantum fields

Where are these quanta of space? Nowhere. They are not in space because they are themselves the space. Space is created by the linking of these individual quanta of gravity. Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.

Or does it mean, as it seems to me, that we must accept the idea that reality is only interaction?

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe. Our very soul itself is only one such small example.

Democritus himself, who had placed empty space at the basis of his world where atoms course, certainly wasn't crystal clear on the issue: he wrote that empty space is something "between being and non-being":

What role do we have as human beings who perceive, make decisions, laugh, and cry, in this great fresco of the world as depicted by contemporary physics?

Noi siamo fatti della stessa polvere di stelle di cui sono fatte le cose e sia quando siamo immersi nel dolore sia quando ridiamo e risplende la gioia non facciamo che essere quello che non possiamo che essere: parte del nostro mondo.

Planets circle around the sun, and things fall, because space around them is curved.

Even if we observe a small, empty region of space in which there are no atoms, we still detect a minute swarming of these particles.

the gravitational field is not diffused through space; the gravitational field is that space itself.

Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary space, things do not fall.

Solen böjer rummet runt omkring sig och jorden kretsar inte kring den för att den vore dragen av en gåtfull kraft, utan för att den rör sig rakt fram i ett rum som böjs.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

We are stardust, we are fallen and we've got to get back to the garden.