“As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
“Mountains, I realize. That's what the ocean is. Those waves are peaks. The stars are lights in houses and on streets. The… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“It was like those old Star Trek sets—you ignored the polystyrene boulders and painted sky to concentrate on watching Kirk pace around… — Josephine Myles Copy Share Image
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered how this circumpolar stars between the Drago and the Lion came to be known as the Great Bear.… — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We settled into a silence, and I felt the sky's bigness above me, the unimaginable vastness of it all–looking at Polaris and… — John Green Copy Share Image
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“Various stars. Various kings. Various sunsets, signs, cursory insights. Many minute attentions, many knowledgeable watchers, Much cold, much overbearing darkness. Various long… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and… — John Cho Copy Share Image
Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's… — David Gray Copy Share Image
“Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“I reached down and squeezed his hand. "You are a good brother." He nodded. I could see in the gray light that… — John Green Copy Share Image
After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Don’t the stars make you feel so small?” Bastien said, and there was a slight roughness around his words from where his… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Of course, there are numerous variables to consider before we can make effective use of this clue. We need to construct a… — David Mack Copy Share Image
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should stare at the sky more often. Maybe I should enjoy the night air instead of shielding myself from it… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
“…the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together—the thing that makes our whole universe work—comes from a theoretical substance… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“UK professional astronomy worked differently from USA professional astronomy. When I told my UK employer I was going to work for another… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
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