Quotes About Cosmos

The huge night moved overhead scattering drops of itself.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don

O starry night, This is how I want to die

Rats live on no evil star

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

What brought me here was a desire to keep playing and the exciting project the Cosmos proposed to me. As well as being able to play, which is my passion and what I like doing, they also gave me the chance to help develop a youth academy, where I can bring my experience and knowledge to bear.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only good, warmed by its only lights.

the silver pepper of the stars.

hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.

A Natureza é partes sem um todo. Isto é talvez o tal mistério de que falam.

Me detengo a orillas de mí y me asomo… Abismo… Y en ese abismo el Universo.

Creio na existência dos mundos superiores ao nosso e de habitantes desses mundos, em experiências de diversos graus de espiritualidade, subtilizando-se até chegar a um Ente supremo, que presumivelmente criou este mundo.

I don't know what the point is of this journey I was obliged to make between one night and another, in the company of the entire universe.

Después morirá el planeta giratorio en que todo esto ocurrió.

One day, when everything is finally and fully revealed, that other door will open and all that we were – rubbish of stars and souls – will be swept outside the house, so that what exists can start over.

And my heart is a little larger than the entire universe. — Álvaro de Campos, from "[I got off the train]," 4 July 1934, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa , ed. & trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)

Il mistero supremo dell'Universo, l'unico mistero, tutto e in tutto, è che ci sia un mistero dell'universo, è che ci sia l'universo, qualcosa, è che ci sia l'esserci. ... Il mistero di tutto si avvicina talmente al mio essere, giunge così vicino agli occhi della mia anima che mi dissolvo in tenebre e avvolto in tenebre oscuramente mi atterrisco.

I lift my eyes and look at the stars, which make no sense at all.

Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms. Do you follow me intelligently?

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.