Quotes About Cosmos

Waves can wash away the most stubborn stains, and the stars do not care one way or the other.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Las razones por las que estamos aquí forman una cadena tan inverosímil que la posibilidad de que alguna otra civilización tecnológica exista en la Vía Láctea en la actualidad es remotísima. Estamos solos, y lo mejor es que nos hagamos la idea.

pair of globes, one astronomical and the other terrestrial.

Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap, the Genesis account is interested in the jurisdiction of humankind over the rest of creation as a result of the image of God in which people were created.

Instead of offering a statement of causes, Genesis 1 is offering a statement of how everything will work according to God's purposes. In that sense the text looks to the future (how this cosmos will function for human beings with God at its center) rather than to the past (how God brought material into being).[9] Purpose entails some level of causation (though it does not specify the level) and affirms sovereign control of the causation process.

The Bible considers it much more important to say that God has made everything work rather than being content to say that God made the physical stuff.

Hence, pageant history! hence, gilded cheat! Swart planet in the universe of deeds!

Astronomers have recently discovered a massive amount of alcohol in our region of the Milky Way. The giant cloud of methanol measures 288 billion miles across. Although the alcohol we like to drink is grain alcohol (otherwise known as ethyl alcohol or ethanol) and methanol would poison us, the discovery goes some way to supporting the theory that the universe is here so that we can drink it.

Maailmakõiksus siin meie ümber on paljas maailmakõiksus, ei kehvem ega ülevam sellest, mis laotub pealinna hurtsikute ja üürimajade ja templite ja kontorite kohal. Maailm on maailm, elu on elu, kõikjal seesama.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

How can anyone be so full of pride? We are all living under the same sky, aren't we? Looking into the starry heavens alone, is a humbling experience.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

Después hicieron acto de presencia las lágrimas, y se derramaron, y las constelaciones se pusieron a girar sobre nosotros, y la luna empezó a trazar su fatigoso curso. Yacimos acongojados e insomnes mientras transcurrían las horas.

Empirically speaking, we are made from star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? Materials never leave this world. They just keep recycling, recombining. That's what you kept telling me when we met--that in a real, material sense, what is made from where . I didn't have a clue what you were talking about, but I could see you burned for it. I wanted to be near that burning. I still don't understand, but at least now my fingers ride the lip.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created.

The basic principle is that there is a First Being who brought every existing thing into being, for if it be supposed that he did not exist, then nothing else could possibly exist.