Quotes About Cosmos

The eternal silence of infinite spaces reassures me.

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.

The air we breathe has about 1019 atoms in each cubic centimeter—and we usually think of air as empty space.

God, having created his Universe, has now screwed the cap on His pen, put His feet on the mantelpiece and left the work to get on with itself.

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Aliens are definitely real.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars.

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

A mix tape steals these moments from all over the musical cosmos, and splices them into a whole new groove.

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

Each of us is a microcosm in which the universal process actualizes itself.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?