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Quotes About Cosmos

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
~ Walt Whitman
To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow
~ Walt Whitman
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
~ Walt Whitman
Beyond thy lectures learn'd professor, Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics ... The entities of entities, eidólons. Unfix'd yet fix'd, Ever shall be, ever have been and are, Sweeping the present to the infinite future, Eidólons, eidólons, eidólons.
~ Walt Whitman
The earth recedes from me into the night, I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
~ Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...
~ Walt Whitman
Tutta la teoria dell'universo si rivolge immancabilmente a un unico individuo - ossia a Te
~ Walt Whitman
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
~ Walt Whitman
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
~ Walter Isaacson
He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
~ Walter Isaacson
He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.
~ Walter Isaacson
la armonía del cosmos se refleja en la belleza de los seres vivos.
~ Walter Isaacson
But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worked.
~ Walter Isaacson
Einstein creía que existía una realidad armónica tras las leyes del universo y que el objetivo de la ciencia era descubrirla.
~ Walter Isaacson
His head-snapping insight was that gravity could be defined as the curvature of spacetime, and thus it could be represented by a metric tensor.
~ Walter Isaacson
Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees—and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?
~ Walter Isaacson
We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73
~ Walter Isaacson
The central idea of general relativity is that gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime
~ Walter Isaacson
Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire,walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, From heaven through the world to hell
~ Walter Kaufmann
Opening and closing spirals constitute the heartbeat of the universe.
~ Walter Russell
To him I give all-knowing and all-power to think My universe into rhythmic, balanced forms with Me.
~ Walter Russell
That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.
~ Warren Ellis
You never get tired of looking at the stars
~ Warren Ellis