Quotes About Cosmos

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal--that is clear.

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.

W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.

There may certainly be thinking beings besides men on the other planets of our solar system. But by the suppositions of such beings we do not change our standing point – we extend our conception quantitively not qualitatively.

Wenn ich mich im Zusammenhang des Universums betrachte, was bin ich?

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that eneter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is just a trail of debris.

The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.

Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night sky, it bled color?

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

Dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

How strange a thing it was to be here, animate and conscious, on this ball of mud and brine as it whirled through the illimitable depths of space.

Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.

Our sun is less than halfway through its life. It formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it's got 6 billion more years before the fuel runs out. It

Up is infinite. Down is infinite. Pantheism, dualism, pluralism!

Even when someone is miles away, always remember that we are under the same sky, looking at the same sun, moon, and stars.

When you see love with all your heart you shall find its echoes in the universe.

I'll stop loving you will all the stars in the universe burn out.