Quotes About Cosmos

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

We are made of starstuff.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

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

We are all star stuff.

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

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.