Quotes About Cosmos

After the wolvogs have gone he lies on his back on the platform, gazing up at the stars through the gently moving leaves. They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.

Nothing. Just that sound, like the sound of starlight scratching its way through outer space: kkkkkkk.

el universo era una sinfonía de corrientes alternas

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

And then I saw the eternal stars twinkling down upon me; I knew their God was mine.