Quotes About Cosmos

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Weil das menschliche Wesen alles, was im Himmel und auf Erden ist, in sich trägt, wird der Mensch als ein Universum in sich selbst bezeichnet. Gott sagt in Bezug auf den Menschen im Koran: "Wir haben ihn zu unserem Kalifen gemacht." (Koran 2:30) Mit Kalif ist gemeint, dass der Mensch ein Repräsentant Gottes, ein Anführer ist, unter dessen Obhut das Universum gestellt ist; denn das menschliche Wesen ist selbst ein Universum. (S. 124)

Light has a beginning a middle and an end so feel the stars light up for you.

The stars blink their existence into the world in sentient binary codes.

Physicists now know that 70 per cent of the known universe is dark energy. Dark matter is another 25 per cent. Once we thought we knew all about life, but it turns out everything we think of as reality is less than 5 per cent.

You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.

Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.

every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. it really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. Page 59

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Copernicus, 1996). Julian

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand

We translate the word "Justice," but Dikè means, not Justice as between man and man, but the order of the world, the way of life.

And there are times when I lie on my back in some quiet place and look up and up and up into the heavens as the stars gradually emerge from the fading of day's light. And I see myself, a tiny speck of consciousness in the enormity of the universe.

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.