Quotes About Cosmos

We are stardust...

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.

The path of self-development presents us with necessary periods of isolation from others. Later the isolation ends and we are put to use by the Cosmos. Thus, life seems to be an anvil, Fate a hammer for shaping our spiritual awareness.

cry. He knew that the light from stars was light that was dead already, that what you were seeing was the past, not your present, and certainly not your future.

whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should

God made the universe out of nothing, and if you look real close, you can tell.

Yoga, a practice that is at the heart of Hindu philosophy and religion, means to yoke. Its goal is to unite man with Brahman, the Hindu concept of 'God' or (god-consciousness). Brahman represents everything. It is seen as the all, the absolute. Brahman is both all good and all bad and is the power and the force of the universe--the god of India.

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.

Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.

At five, I had the intuitive, instinctive faith that my cosmos, my family and the world were good and true and beautiful. That somehow I had always been and always would be. And I knew in a way of a five-year-old that I had worth and dignity and individuality. Later, when I read Nietzsche's statement that these are not given to us by nature but are tasks that we must somehow solve, I knew him to be wrong. We all had them once. We

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing...

Man has emerged from dust of stars to contemplate the universe around him.

The more we know of the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves.

The religious concept of creation flows from a sense of wonder at the existence of the universe and our place in it. The scientific concept of creation encompasses no less a sense of wonder.

The truth and treasure of the universe is its own existence, and our quest for that truth and treasure will be eternal, like the universe itself.

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.

in a star-lit sky, shedding only the feeblest light.

Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep purple, and finally embraces the black of night as Earth's rotation

Gravity is always attractive.

There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.