Quotes About Cosmos

We are children of earth and sky.

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

Life is a loan, and we have to return it to the universe.

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.

He felt above him the vast indifferent dome and the calm processes of the heavenly bodies; and the earth beneath him, the earth that had borne him, had taken him to her breast.

Of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

It's funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth's old dance through the heavens.

there are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always with us.

I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory.

The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

We know very little about the universe. I personally don't believe it's uniform and the same everywhere. That's like saying the earth is flat.

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

It's an international space station. We have crew members from both the U.S. and Russia and now the United Kingdom with Tim Peake from the U.K... It's great to see that, on this space station, that we can work across cultures in a very cooperative way.

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.