Quotes About Cosmos

What we think and how we act in the universe influence how the goal of the universe will be attained.

Needham comments that, according to a philosophic conception dominant in China, the cosmos is in spontaneous harmony and the regularity of phenomena is not due to any external authority. On the contrary, this harmony in nature, society, and the heavens originates from the equilibrium among these processes. Stable and interdependent, they resonate with each other in a kind of nonconcerted harmony.

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella?

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella? Ve lo dicano gli astronomi. Quanti secoli ci vollero al sentimento umano per concertarsi in coscienza? Lo dicano gli antropologi.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One.

what the space that is empty of bodies is filled with

Contemplating the stars he has become accustomed to considering himself an anonymous and incorporeal dot, almost forgetting that he exists; to deal now with human beings, he cannot help involving himself, and he no longer knows where his self is to be found.

The universe and the void: I'll return to these two terms, between which swings the aim of literature, and which often seem to mean the same thing.

Andria was built so artfully that its every street follows a planet's orbit, and the buildings and the places of community life repeat the order of the constellations and the position of the most luminous stars: Antares, Alpheratz, Capricorn, the Cepheids.

or else we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes ...

Praise be to the stars that implode. A new freedom opens up within them: annulled from space, exonerated from time, existing, at last, for themselves alone and no longer in relation to all the rest, perhaps only they can be sure they really exist.

The main thrust of his poetics was constantly to raise the target which literature sets itself: he challenges literature to describe the indescribable, from macrocosm to microcosm, from the Big Bang to the division of cells.

poor, frail universe, born of nothing, all we are and do resembles you.