“Oh, I love astronomy. I’m a Pisces. What sign are you?” Which had made Mac laugh again, and he started to explain… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
“Since the familiar particles and the objects they compose—stars, planets, people, etc.—amount to less than 5 percent of the mass of the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death’s… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact." "What did you say?" said Sniff.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“You The lines of your neck. The slope down to your shoulders. The unsteady blue welt of veins at your wrists, a… — Elisabeth Hewer Copy Share Image
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“You know, I've thought an awful lot about this, and I think that people are much like those stars up there. Some… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory… — Gerard Helferich Copy Share Image
“The Tull-Toks claim that everything in the universe can be read. Each star is a living text, where the massive convection currents… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Homesickness Standing under a million stars screaming up at them, PLEASE JUST TAKE ME HOME, with a voice rusty like the underside… — Elisabeth Hewer Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out… — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There's one detail I've always remembered: He told me how long it takes the light from the stars to reach through space… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Jenna reached over and held one of my hands, Kara held the other, and I felt like the universe was holding us… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies.… — Steve Moffat Copy Share Image
So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“What can it matter to you? You just drift along. You don't give a good godamm about the universal consequences that can… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I stared at the night's first stars, as if their twilight-dimmed glow would reveal something to me, give me answers to the… — R.K. Ryals Copy Share Image
“In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The stars. We’re still out in the country, so the light pollution from the cities isn’t hiding them from view quite as… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is… — David Jewitt Copy Share Image
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image