Quotes About Cosmos

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.