“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“There were times when he'd told her that every star was a bit of gold that was hers for the taking, because… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Last night I learned that for everyone alive on earth today, there are thirty ghosts lined up behind them. Not literally lined… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As a girl she had imagined the Milky Way was the curtain of heaven, a notion she had been sorry to abandon… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
“I don’t wake up in the morning and think, ‘Wow, I’m on a planet in the Milky Way, in infinite space, bestowed… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is… — J. M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“In 1997, the Hubble telescope took flight to give us a look through its powerful lens into places we had never known… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Oh, how small we were, in the grand scheme of it all. Our planet was but a speck in the midst of… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“These are maybe the most exciting stars, those just above where sky meets land and ocean, because we so seldom see them,… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how these matters are supposed to go,” she said finally, in the dark. “I was raised amid mountains and… — Shana Abé Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous 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
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
WHO IS LIKE THE LORD OUR GOD, WHO DWELLS ON HIGH, WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF TO BEHOLD THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE… — JS Boegl Copy Share Image
“When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freedom, and dying… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
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“The light was grainy, dusty; it looked like the Milky Way had spread from the top of the sky all down the… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
“As we men live and act, so do our arteries; so does blood; so do corpuscles. As cells and protoplasm live and… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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