Quotes About Cosmos

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

God is the Maker of heaven and earth.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

I am moving as one with the universe.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.