Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the system of procession… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There is a misconception, geocentric and anthropomorphic, common to the large majority the the earthbound, which causes them to visualize a planetary… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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“We are grass of the field. We flourish for a season and then fade. Death wipes us out. Yet, we are part… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“The greatest mystery was not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of… — Maurice Friedman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when this flawed world seems unusually hateful, I wonder whether there might be some other place, far away, where I should… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. … This double service assures to… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre Copy Share Image
“If the multiverse turns out to be the best explanation of the fundamental physical constants, it would not be the first time… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths,… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
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“Answers are shooting stars in a nebulous firmament. Every burst of outspoken enlightenment fails to betray the vast timeless riddles of their… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“Cainan (sometimes the name is spelled Kainam) was the son of Arpachsad: "And the son grew, and his father taught him writing,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“The sky pulsed with stars. Some people say it makes them lonesome when they stare up at the night sky. I can't… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
“I never saw a sky like the sky over Dorrego - so vast, so black, with stars in an infinite array of… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In the original 'Star Trek' TV series, space stations served as deep-space research laboratories, as well as rendezvous points where starships could… — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish… — Ki Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It’s all strange to me. I know I live on a fierce and magical planet, which sheds or surrenders rain or even… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea,… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
“the universe is big and old and, as a result, rare events happen all the time. Go out some night into the… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“The green fractals of the forest and the eons of faint star clusters above—my math’s teacher’s order in the universe—were nothing like… — Anya Allyn Copy Share Image
“Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
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