Quotes About Cosmos

Just take a look around. The whole universe is…let's say it's in a transitional phase…" And they pointed to the sky, where the constellations have become unrecognizable, here clotted, there rarefied, the celestial map in upheaval, stars exploding one after the other, while more stars emit a final flicker and die.

Sentii subito che nell'ordine perfetto dell'universo s'era aperta una breccia, uno squarcio irreparabile.

Lucretius wants to write the poem of matter, but he warns us from the start that the reality of matter is that it's made of invisible particles. He

Según las más recientes teorías, la Tierra en su origen habría sido un pequeñísimo cuerpo frío que luego habría aumentado englobando meteoritos y polvo meteórico. Al principio creíamos que podíamos tenerla limpia –contó el viejo Qfwfq–, precisamente porque era pequeña y se podía barrer y desempolvar todos los días.

The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of its simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

It can be said that we are all "star dust," the product of heavy element generation within previous generations of stars.

A physicist once told me that one view of our universe is that its stability is an accident, that thousands upon thousands of relationships are unstable and that chance alone holds ours together.

The true purpose of mankind is to bear the torch of truth aloft and shine it, even into the darkest places. To share our forensic, unforgiving, liberating understanding with the dimmest reaches of the cosmos. To emancipate those shackled in ignorance. To free ourselves and others from false gods, and take our place at the apex of sentient life. That… that is what we may pour faith into. That is what we can harness our boundless faith to.

What a profoundly bleak and inhospitable cosmos you inhabit, colonel-commissar. No wonder you fight so much.

Did you know that we live inside the sun?

Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining.

Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is.

Unlike people from any other time in history, we know what we are looking at when we look up upon the night sky.

For many thousands of years, human beings have wondered and asked questions about the distant past and the remote future of our world. The fact that we continue to ask such questions does not distinguish us from our ancient ancestors. What does make us different is that for the first time in history we, as a species, are capable of producing real and credible answers to these questions. We are among the first to be witness of the Big Bang.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Growing up I was enthralled by the night sky. But now most of us can see only a few faint stars at night, the ones bright enough to make it through the domes of light that enclose our metropolises. For all of human history, the night sky told stories, delineated time, and guided voyagers. Now 30 percent of the people on the planet can't even see the Milky Way from their homes. And in the United States, 80 percent of us can't.

Ma used to say stars were heaven's light peeking through pinholes in the velvet sky.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.