Quotes About Cosmos

there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.

The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.

The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

I paid the watchman fifty kopeks so that I could stay after closing time until the stars came out. And I thought: What is man on this earth? A wretched speck of dust which thinks, works, and suffers. What does he leave behind him?

L'univers et l'homme sont faits d'étoiles

He aquí la muerte, fin de un universo.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

How could there be any part of space that belonged to any specific species, because space had always been and would always be, long after the races that had staked their claims had vanished.

But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.

The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.

All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.

More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void"—so wrote Democritus. And it is "void" that underlies the Eastern teachings—not emptiness or absence, but the Uncreated that preceded all creation, the beginningless potential of all things.