Quotes About Cosmos

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.