Quotes About Cosmos

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

If there is no God, how do we explain that a machine requires a maker, but the universe does not.

She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the origins of stars. The young astronomer knew that in Aristotelian times the word 'comet' meant "the length of luminous hair," but the word eventually changed to signify the orbiting streak that sometimes, just sometimes, flies a little too close to the sun.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

Astronomers are disclosing insights that New Agers would welcome and be attuned to. Not only do we share a common origin, and many genes, with the entire web of life on Earth, but we are linked to the cosmos. All living things depend on the stars: they are energised by the heat and light from the Sun; they are made of atoms that were forged from pristine hydrogen, billions of years ago, in faraway stars.

Back in 1698 Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist who did pioneering work in optics, wrote 'Why [should] not every one of these stars and suns have as great a retinue as our sun, of planets, with their moons to wait upon them?

The atoms that comprise our bodies and that make all visible stars and galaxies, are mere trace-constituents of a universe whose large-scale structure is controlled by some quite different (and invisible) substance. We see, as it were, just the white foam on the wave-crests, not the massive waves themselves. We must envisage our cosmic habitat as a dark place, made mainly of quite unknown material.

We, and the visible universe around us, may exist only because of a difference in the ninth decimal place between the numbers of quarks and of antiquarks.

Vacuum energy is the leftovers from dark energy, just like the déjà vu's in our everyday life.

Anything could happen in a cosmos that was part math and part magic.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.

and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.

I am yours, Morrighan, forever yours … and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.

It began with the stars

We are all stardust and memories.

Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which extends throughout the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

That is the life of the gods, who only seem to die like the sun at his setting. But do not ride too fast across the sky and leave us all in darkness.

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars. How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

Soy ciudadano del universo"».

Massimo Pigliucci