Quotes About Universe

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?