Quotes About Inf

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

For us, the universe goes only as far as light has travelled in the billions of years since the universe was formed.

If we were randomly inserted into the universe," Sagan wrote, "the chances that you would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion.

The reason for this is that the universe bends, in a way we can't adequately imagine

Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings.

The most remarkable part of all is your DNA. You have a metre of it packed into every cell, and so many cells that if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single fine strand it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto.8 Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

That's not because it would take too long to get there—though of course it would—but because even if you travelled outward and outward in a straight line, indefinitely and pugnaciously, you would never arrive at an outer boundary. Instead, you would come back to where you began (at which point, presumably, you would rather lose heart in the exercise and give up).

J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.

three minutes, 98 per cent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe.

The universe was vaster—vastly vaster—than anyone had ever supposed.

Astronomers today believe there are perhaps 140 billion galaxies in the visible universe.

Alpha Centauri

Rather, space curves, in a way that allows it to be boundless but finite.

Altogether it takes 7 billion billion billion (that's 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 7 octillion) atoms to make you.

Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

a nivel atómico, en cierto sentido somos eternos.

When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day.

Quando olha para o céu e vê o infinito através das estrelas, você percebe que há coisas mais importantes do que as pessoas fazem todo dia.

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.