“I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or… — Frank Ramsey Copy Share Image
Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still… — Ransom K Ferm Copy Share Image
“Be around those who crave new galaxies in you. The light through your veins. Poetic science. Wider vision. Gentler strength. The moon… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
“Once when Newton was away from his astronomical laboratory, he had returned to find that his little poodle dog Diamond had torn… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I used to dream I used to glance beyond the stars Now I don't know where we are although I know we've… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“When I had that idea about the gaslights in the street, I glanced at the sky. It was very dark, but I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet… This… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“They believed that remembering someone could bring them back to you long after they had departed, if you only concentrated hard enough,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
“The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through with diamonds. The… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The study of the universe as a whole is a unique enterprise. At least in one sense one is seeking to understand… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
“There’s been a revival of the old debate: with the failure of the wormholes, should we consider redesigning our minds to encompass… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.. a city neighborhood that included houses, lampposts, walls, and bushes. But with an early bedtime… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A few stars had been let out early. Teppic looked up at them. Perhaps, he thought, there is life somewhere else. On… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It got to the point where he didn’t even look up at the sky any more as he blundered back and forth.… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, the're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All three of them stood for a moment gazing at the stars. ''And all these are worlds,'' said Hagen. ''Or else,'' said… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good. Nobody knows how many stars there are in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Marilla, look at that big star over Mr. Harrison's maple grove, with all that hold hush of silvery sky about it. I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and… — R.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
![“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.. a city neighborhood that included houses, lampposts, walls, and bushes. But with an early bedtime in the winter, I could look out my window and see the stars, and the stars were not like anything else in my neighborhood. [At age 5] I didn’t know what they were…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d82/carl-sagan-160_astronomy_i-grew-up-in-brooklyn-new-york-a-city-ne_799412.jpg)
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