Quotes About Cosmos

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.

Nonetheless, in all cases matter tells spacetime how to curve, and spacetime tells matter how to move.

Other branes might be parallel to ours and might house parallel worlds. But many other types of braneworld might exist too. Branes could intersect and particles could be trapped at the intersections. Branes could have different dimensionality. They could curve. They could move. They could wrap around unseen invisible dimensions. Let your imagination run wild and draw any picture you like. It is not impossible that such a geometry exists in the cosmos.

we currently live in a region—300 light-years across—called the Local Bubble, which is a vacuum-like domain with very low hydrogen density within the interstellar medium in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

Nothing about our world is inconsistent with the existence of a multiverse.

But the Universe is by definition a single entity and in principle its components interact. This book explores

They tell us remarkable things, such as that extra dimensions can be infinite in size yet remain unseen, or that we can be living in a three-spatial-dimensional sinkhole in a higher-dimensional universe.

Recall that the Milky Way is a disk galaxy, meaning most of the stars and gas lie in a thin disk, about 130,000 light-years across but only roughly 2,000 light-years in thickness. The Sun is located at a distance of about 27,000 light-years from the galactic center, and happens at this moment to be close to the galactic midplane—less than 100 light-years away. It is also at the edge of a spiral arm.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

The stars report a vast consequence our human moment joins.

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

Yod—Heh—Vau—Heh Atziluth—Briah—Yetzirah—Assiah Chiah—Neshamah—Ruach—Nephesh

I would hear him say: "Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin, and You know what makes this watch run. . .

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!