Quotes About Cosmos

When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.

What's the rush, little fellow?" asked Bibwit Harte. "What seems to be the trouble?" "You're the little fellow!" Jack said. "Hmm, well…in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We're all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack.

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ur-matter, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

We are made of atoms. With each breath you inhale a million billion billion atoms of oxygen, which gives some idea of how small each one is. All of them, together with the carbon atoms in your skin, and indeed everything else on Earth, were cooked in a star some 5 billion years ago. So you are made of stuff that is as old as the planet, one-third as old as the universe, though this is the first time that those atoms have been gathered together such that they think that they are you.

The universe does not work by our rules

You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

What mattered a single moon in such a universe?

There is a fifth force which shaped religious belief, but its effect is so universal and profound that it deserves to stand alone. This is, of course, space travel—and in any discussion of religion, it deserves to be written thus: SPACE TRAVEL!

Forces that we cannot understand permeate our universe. We see the shadows of those forces when they are projected upon a screen available to our senses, but understand them we do not.

cualquier cosa que podamos identificar como nuestro universo solo es una parte de fenómenos más amplios.

Leto did not respond. His thoughts were lost in memories of night—the one just past and the millennial others which crowded his pasts—clouds and stars, the rains and the open blackness pocked with glittering flakes from a shredded cosmos, a universe of nights, extravagant with them as he had been with his heartbeats.

the universe is created by the participation of consciousness

The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

We are no exception: the physical laws apply to everything.

There was a necessity, the same necessity that forces the multiverse upon us: to have one set of physical laws for both the small and the large.

But "we" in this sentence are the collection of our alternate selves in the alternate, but all equally real, universes of the multiverse.

Only a mentality that could see the entire multiverse would be able to dispense with probabilities.

very simple way

What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. —Empedocles

before the universe" means when there wasn't any when; which is to say that it doesn't mean anything at all.