Quotes About Universe

The cosmic perspective helps us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to realize that life is about more than money, popularity, clothes, sports, or even grades.

The cosmic perspective shows us that the very atoms and particles that make up our bodies are spread across the universe itself, making us one and the same.

For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don't like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. Perhaps sesquipedalian chemical names just sound dangerous. But in that case we should blame the chemists, and not the chemicals themselves. Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them. †

after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

A perspectiva cósmica abre nossos olhos para o universo, não como um berço benevolente concebido para gerar a vida, mas como um lugar frio, solitário e perigoso, nos obrigando a reavaliar o valor de todos os humanos um para o outro.

I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.

The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!

L'ignorance est l'état naturel de l'esprit pour un chercheur scientifique. Montrez-moi quelqu'un qui croit n'être en rien ignorant, et je vous montrerai quelqu'un qui n'a jamais cherché, ni affronté la frontière entre ce qui est connu et ce qui est encore inconnu dans l'univers.

The four most common, chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth

El físico teórico estadounidense del siglo XX John Archibald Wheeler lo expresó de mejor forma, resumiendo el concepto de Einstein como: "La materia le dice al espacio cómo curvarse; el espacio la dice a la materia cómo moverse".4

matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.

Tutti noi, a un certo punto, abbiamo alzato gli occhi al cielo di notte e ci siamo chiesti: che significa tutto questo? Come funziona? E qual è il mio posto nell'Universo

Siamo polvere di stelle diventata vita [...].

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every time you turn a bigger telescope to the night sky, we end up smaller than we had previously imagined…It is an ego-dismantling device

The largest black hole that could have evaporated since the big bang would have to have been smaller than an atomic nucleus.

la materia le dice al espacio cómo curvarse, y el espacio le dice a la materia cómo moverse.

Half of the stars you see aren't solo stars at all. They're double, multiple, triple, quadruple star systems. Even, for example, the nearest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri, that's a multiple star system.

The universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.

Las personas que creen que lo saben todo nunca han buscado ni se han encontrado con los lindes entre lo conocido y lo desconocido en el cosmos. Y

Evidence shows that nature doesn't actually care about our health or longevity. We're equipped by natural instincts to sift between some of what might harm us and some of what may bring us comfort. Yet there is no hint from space that anyone or anything in the universe will arrive to save us from Earth, or from ourselves. It is we alone who care about us.

If the gridiron of a football field were a timeline of the universe, with the Big Bang at one end and this moment at the other, then all of human recorded history would span the thickness of a blade of grass in the end zone.

We are stardust brought to life