Quotes About Cosmos

The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

La matematica è l'alfabeto nel quale Dio ha scritto l'universo.

No se puede arrancar una flor sin molestar a una estrella.

Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins.

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

If the origin of things is from within the cosmos, then, possibly, the control of all things can come from something within that cosmos. This faith leads to man playing God, to man attempting to control evolution, to a belief in a world state controlling all things, and to a religious belief in the powers of time and process.

cosmic benevolence.