Quotes About Universe

Nel mare immenso di galassie e di stelle, siamo un infinitesimo angolo sperduto; fra gli arabeschi infiniti di forme che compongono il reale, noi non siamo che un ghirigoro fra tanti

C'è così tanto spazio lassù, è puerile pensare che in quest'angolo periferico di una galassia delle più banali ci sia qualcosa di speciale. La vita sulla Terra non è che un assaggio di cosa può succedere nell'universo.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

it is simply a process that degrades and consumes the low entropy of food; it is a self-structured disordering, no more and no less than in the rest of the universe.

The nature of time is perhaps the greatest remaining mystery. Curious threads connect it to those other great open mysteries: the nature of mind, the origin of the universe, the fate of black holes, the very functioning of life on Earth. Something essential continues to draw us back to the nature of time.

Our intuitive idea of the present, the ensemble of all events happening "now" in the universe, is an effect of our blindness: our inability to recognize small temporal intervals. An illegitimate extrapolation from our parochial experience.

The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.

Time sits at the center of the tangle of problems raised by the intersection of gravity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe. Our very soul itself is only one such small example.

This reads: "Delta S is always greater than or equal to zero," and we call this "the second principle of thermodynamics

Carlo Rovelli

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this inmense, chaotic universe.

There is so much space up there that it is childish to think that in a peripheral corner of an ordinary galaxy there should be something uniquely special. Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe. Our very soul itself is only one such small example.

Noi siamo fatti della stessa polvere di stelle di cui sono fatte le cose e sia quando siamo immersi nel dolore sia quando ridiamo e risplende la gioia non facciamo che essere quello che non possiamo che essere: parte del nostro mondo.

Planets circle around the sun, and things fall, because space around them is curved.

the gravitational field is not diffused through space; the gravitational field is that space itself.

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"?

Solen böjer rummet runt omkring sig och jorden kretsar inte kring den för att den vore dragen av en gåtfull kraft, utan för att den rör sig rakt fram i ett rum som böjs.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy—or in our physics.

The physical substratum that determines duration and physical intervals—the gravitational field—does not only have a dynamic influenced by masses; it is also a quantum entity that does not have determined values until it interacts with something else. When it does, the durations are granular and determinate only for that something with which it interacts; they remain indeterminate for the rest of the universe.

Qui, sul bordo di quello che sappiamo, a contatto con l'oceano di quanto non sappiamo, brillano il mistero del mondo, la bellezza del mondo, e ci lasciano senza fiato.

Einstein's equation shows that space cannot stand still; it must be expanding. In 1930 the expansion of the universe was actually observed.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.