Quotes About Cosmos

Number rules the universe.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely that I can't go along with it.

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. —Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

I'll be the cloud and you the moon. I'll cover you with both hands, And our roof will be the sky.

Thou didst not turn in contempt from my childish play among dust, and the steps that I heard in my playroom are the same that are echoing from star to star.

At the start of Creation There was a dark without origin, At the breaking of Creation There is fire without end...

What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars?

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved to have seen Einstein's face if he were presented with the data that we actually discovered such a thing, because he himself probably didn't believe in much of it.

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.