Quotes About Cosmos

and besides, positing universe as program didn't seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

Al' iako ja sam stvor sazdan od zemlje, uporna mi ?ežnja potje?e sa zvijezda." VII

Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

The self embodies what the culture believes is humankind's place in the cosmos-- its limits, talents, expectations and prohibitions... There is no universal, trans-historical self, only local selves; there is no universal theory about the self, only local theories.

the universe must have been created by an all-powerful prime mover who, however, took no interest in his handiwork.

Surely the stars are images of love.

The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

But how luminous are they—literally, how much light are they emitting? This depends on how massive they are: The mass of a star is the single greatest factor in how it lives its life, including its luminosity and its life span.

Thus, when we look out at the world, we are nature gazing upon itself.

You are the spell the universe has cast.

Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects.

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Mars does not belong to 'America,' nor to Earth, nor to human beings.

I take comfort in the fact that it is a beautiful universe, and we belong here and that we fit. This is our home.

Remember when you see the stars that you are looking back in time millions of years. The past is present now and here.