Quotes About Cosmos

What weird things planets were.

It's not the solar system they'll claim, but eventually the universe. It might be lonely. It will be strange. Do you really want to be one of them?

How can I refuse an offer like that? We are all we have. And we are so small, and the night is so large.

Nothing in space is ever really standing still, so all visitors and accelerations are, not to put too fine a point on it, relative.

Galaxies dances across her drawn skin. Mine moved in reflection.

Space: still ridiculously big.

They were all born together of the starlight and the sea.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

It sounded religious to her. We come from dust. We are stardust. We are dust on the wind.

I look out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a speck in the cosmos. And here I am in this small clearing, on the surface of the heart, as transient and unnoticed to the universe as the dry blades of grass that are poking into my shirt. It's too much to comprehend up there, too enormous, and I'm so small when it's on top of me. It frightens me, like I'm being crushed.

Souls may be endemic to this part of the universe,' Aeng said, 'but so are flies. Flies far out at sea. Flies on mountaintops.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

Fall, winter, fall; for he, Prompt hand and headpiece clever, Has woven a winter robe, And made of earth and sea His overcoat forever, And wears the turning globe.

The Vitruvian Man sprang from the same passion. Leonardo borrowed the Roman architect Vitruvius's belief that the parts of the human body all exist in exact proportion to one another, in order to construct a visual allegory of man's place in the cosmos.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

The processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is "in, with, and under" all-that-is and all-that-goes-on

The flowering sweetness of the stars

I believe that there are 15,747,724,136,275,02,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

The atom is as porous as the solar system. If we eliminated all the unfilled space in a man's body and collected his protons and electrons into one mass, the man would be reduced to a speck just visible with a magnifying glass.

Neither matter, nor energy, nor anything capable of being used as a signal can travel faster than the speed of light. This limitation of the speed signalling to 299,796 kilometres a second seems a rather arbitrary decree of Nature.

The speed of 299,796 kilometres a second, which occupies a unique position in every measure-system, is commonly referred to as the speed of light. But it is much more than that; it is the speed at which the mass of matter becomes infinite, lengths contract to zero, clocks stand still.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

Lejanas, frías en lo alto, las estrellas parpadeaban indiferentes. Estaban acostumbradas a que los hombres se mataran entre sí.