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Quotes About Cosmos

But the mystery of the being of your wristwatch will be identical with the mystery of the being of the universe and of yourself as well.
~ Joseph Campbell
All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.
~ Joseph Campbell
All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us.
~ Joseph Campbell
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
~ A. R. Ammons
Though I have looked everywhereI can find nothing lowlyin the universe.
~ A. R. Ammons
The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.
~ A.E. Samaan
Rien ne vient de rien & rien ne se perd dans le rien
~ Épicure
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
~ Abdul Kalam
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
~ Aberjhani
The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.
~ Aberjhani
She is a star in her own galaxy.
~ Abhishek Singh
Every atom a teacher, each Universe a seeker
~ Abhishek Singh
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
IBELIEVE IN BLACK HOLES. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
~ Abraham Verghese
Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.
~ Ada Limón
Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.
~ Adalbert Stifter
In other words, pretty much every star you see in the night sky hosts at least one planet. The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of this result as you gaze at all those pinpricks of light. Every one of them hosts at least one world, and most stars will have more than one planet. Solar systems are the rule and not the exception. They're everywhere.
~ Adam Frank
The physical world in which we live, the objectively observed universe around us, is only a part of an inconceivably vast system of worlds. Most of these worlds are spiritual in their essence; they are of a different order from our known world.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
a precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter-                           moon in arrest:
~ Adrienne Rich
When you look at the Earth's horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it's not even the thickness of an orange peel.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
~ Mae Jemison
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
~ Jim Lovell
We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory.
~ Priyamvada Natarajan