Quotes About Cosmos

In the lake, in the center, the stars were mirrored.

And while people ran about proclaiming such things,] I could only think that everything exists because of loss. From the bricks of our buildings, from cement to human cells, everything exists because of chemical transformation, and every chemical transformation is accompanied by loss. And when I look up at the night sky I think: The astronomers have given every star a number.

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day.

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.

There is no heaven. There is no hell. There is no above or below. If there is a realm beyond this one, it is no more beautiful, no more significant, no more full of truth, than ours here on earth.

In the beginning were the spirits.

It's the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.

The sky spread out, full of clouds, and then we broke through to the very stars.

You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials without god. But you cannot live outside the welter of colliding materials.

How loose he seemed to himself, under the stars! The spaces between the stars were pores, out of which human meaning evaporated.

Quantum fluctuations are the monkeys that program the universe.

Scientist thinks there is a biology beyond earth not because we found it, it's simply because if not then earth is some sort of miracle.

But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.

All bodies are part of matter, created at the big bang, 10 billion years before the earth appeared. Yes, your overall body is composed of about 7 octillion venerable atoms (that's a 7 with twenty-seven zeros after it), mostly produced by exploding stars. You are literally stardust; so is everything around you.

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

I do believe there's life other than on our planet.

There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.