“A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“He pushed her so far away that when he tried to find her again... she was light years beyond his reach.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here." "Oh, we don´t travel at… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“What feet may reach against the mind’s arrogance soaring wingless to Alpha Centauri light years away, daring the arctic whalepath, piercing a… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance,… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“These bubble-like cosmic voids can span scales of more than thirty million light-years (3 X 10^23 meters). In these regions the density… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The light from the next closest star, called Proxima Centauri, shows us how it looked just over four years ago. The light… — Carolyn Collins Petersen Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Out in our neck of the woods-26,000 light-years (2.5 X 10^20 meters) from the galactic center-stars follow orbital paths that take them… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“Her eyes had to adjust to the night sky. She walked away from the house, out of the spill of electric light,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“In some far off place, many light years in space, I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, where human… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
“Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A star the size of a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I’ll never understand why some people can’t just let others live their lives, you know,” Danial said. “You don’t have to understand.… — J.H. Trumble Copy Share Image
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