Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“In an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster), in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way), in an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To relax, I work. I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which… — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
“Miss Murphy in first grade wrote its name in chalk across the board and told us it was roaring down the storm… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Your brain… weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels. contains more connections than there are stars in… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Last night at 2:37 a.m. I stopped at the windy peak of Sheikh Mountains and watched the Milky Way. I couldn't tell… — Ismaaciil C. Ubax Copy Share Image
“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“It is not for us that the cow’s milk flows, but we drink it. The flower was not made for us to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“They stood up and the world was totally different. The wheat was an onyx sea, ever moving in shadow. Above it the… — Pamela Morsi Copy Share Image
“On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any… — david wells Copy Share Image
“The stars of the Milky Way galaxy trace a big, flat circle. With a diameter-to-thickness ratio of one thousand to one, our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The one thing we know is that planet Earth does keep moving in the direction of the constellation Leo at a rate… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Experiments with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite, which was launched in 1989, showed in 1990 with overwhelming precision what was already… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“That night, though, far out into the North Atlantic, there were no lights to be seen, for there was no shipping. The… — Robert McFarlane Copy Share Image
“But of all that he saw, what gripped him the most were the light flashes in the darkened atmosphere that he had… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
“It goes something like this: I am one person among 6.5 billion people on Earth at the moment. That's one person among… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
“Right now, you and me here, put together entirely from atoms that have been part of millions of other organisms before they… — Jonathan Tolins Copy Share Image
“Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine,’ wrote Theophrastus, who lived during the founding of the Library of Alexandria. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He looked on the mountaintops, he looked in the valleys, he looked at the bottom of the sea. He looked on the… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is… — Wayne Hays Copy Share Image
The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear Soon in the galaxy, that milky… — John Milton Paradise Lost Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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