Quotes About Cosmos

The Universe is very, very big.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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?"

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

Every time you wink the stars move.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

So much universe, and so little time.

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.

Cuando los cálculos complicados resultan falsos, cuando los mismos filósofos no tienen ya nada que decirnos, es excusable volverse hacia el parloteo fortuito de las aves, o hacia el lejano contrapeso de los astros.

O clérigo pensou em Pitágoras, em Nicolau de Cusa, em um certo Copérnico cujas teorias, recentemente expostas na escola, eram acolhidas com entusiasmo ou violentamente rechaçadas, e um movimento de orgulho recordou-lhe a condição de membro da industriosa e agitada família de homens que domestica o fogo, trasnforma a essência das coisas e esquadrinha o itinerário dos astros.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

It's like one big lending library out there. A piece of what was once a star or something, a flower or a willow tree, when it is finished bein' that might be loaned away an' become a fish or a person's fingernail or evaporate into the sky and be a rainbow. That the—what did he call 'em?—stuff that makes your atoms up an' mine, that stuff mixed up a little different is the sum of all the stuff that's in existence.

You "The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky.

we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting.