Quotes About Cosmos

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the suns themselves begin to die.

one star appears to stand almost overhead hour after hour, night after night, seemingly never moving even as the others circle perpetually around it. In recognition thereof, it is dubbed Polaris, the pole star ...

In an expanding universe, Spencer had said, order was not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

Every astronomer loves the stars.

because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe

You never see anything like it where you live, this I can guarantee. Not one person in 10,000 lives in a place where the stars are visible like they are in the Sierra at night. Dark skies (meaning away from cities), 10,000 feet above sea level: that means thousands of stars. Watch for half an hour and see several meteors streak across the sky, sometimes at cosmological speeds, faster than anything you'll ever see by day.

Andromeda is a very nearby galaxy. It resides

As the Ranger carries Cooper deeper and deeper into the bowels of Gargantua, he continues to see the universe above himself. Chasing the light that brings him that image is an infalling singularity. The singularity is weak at first, but it grows stronger rapidly, as more and more stuff falls into Gargantua and piles up in a thin sheet (Chapter 27). Einstein's laws dictate this.

Einstein's law of time warps says that Everyting likes to live where it is going to age more slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

De todas las ideas concebidas por la mente humana, desde los unicornios y las gárgolas a la bomba de hidrógeno, la más fantástica es, quizá, la del agujero negro:

Black holes are made from warped space and warped time. Nothing else—no matter whatsoever.

singularities (places where space and time are infinitely warped)

La oscuridad reinaba en torno a mí; todo estaba tranquilo, todo. Pero en las alturas zumbaba el eterno canto de la atmósfera, ese bordoneo lejano, sin modulaciones, que jamás se calla. Presté atención tanto tiempo a ese murmullo sin fin, a ese murmullo morboso, que comenzó a turbarme. Eran, sin duda, las sinfonías de los mundos girando en el espacio por encima de mí, las estrellas que entonaban un himno.

U jesen može se katkad videti, kako zvezde padaju. Eto, mislim ja tada u svojoj samo?i, možda se to trza ?itav jedan svet tamo gore? Svet se raspada u komade pred mojim o?ima? I meni – je palo u deo, da u svom životu vidim smrt zvezda!

There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.