Quotes About Cosmos

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

Someday death will take us to another star.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

until recently no one could know that the little blob of light marked the presence of another galaxy, one twice the size of the Milky Way and home to half a trillion stars. Or that these next-door neighbors were but two of 100 billion galaxies likewise swarming with stars.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

Here on this deck, millions of other universes exist unaware of one another... He raised his wings and spread them wide before folding them again. There, he said, I have just brushed ten million other worlds, and they knew nothing of it. We are close as a heartbeat, but we can never touch or see or hear these other worlds...

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal to us the dimensions of God.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

So if anyone is to declare how the all was in this way genuinely born, he must also mix in the form of the wandering cause-how it is its nature to sweep things around. In this way, then, we must retreat, and, by taking in turn another, new beginning suited to these very matters, just as in what was before us earlier, so too in what is before us now, we must begin again from the beginning.

Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.

Someday, the stars will reach back.

Deus sive Natura.

Any thoughtful physicist, he said, well schooled in quantum mechanics, would agree that all time exists simultaneously, which I subsequently learned was the case. In truth, Father said, as the first instant of the universe, all of time was present, all our yesterdays and today and all our tomorrows, everyone and everything that was and ever would be existed at that moment.

Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

All time—past, present, future—existed in the instant the universe came into being, but also in all the infinite number of universes that exist alongside one another. Time is one big ocean encompassing all those possible worlds. And so for those who truly understand time and the uses to which it can be put, not only the past and future can be visited, but so can universes floating far, far away from theirs in the sea of time.

Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.

Sometimes the vastness of creation filled Jeffy less with a sense of wonder than with reverent dread

all of time—past, present, and future—was complete in the instant of the big bang. Therefore the past and the future were contained in the present. If the future of this timeline was here to be known right now, there might be people gifted enough to see what most could not.