“One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the cosmos. I can… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“One night she got into an argument with one of the scientists about the recent discovery of a new planet called Uranus… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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“They say you see stars, when you hit the back of your head like that, but Billy was facing upwards, and he… — Julia Lawrinson Copy Share Image
“I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“There is an idea - strange, haunting, evocative - one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It is entirely… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Stars of Fire by Stewart Stafford At the Gate of Pleiades, Lies the playground of the Deities, At The Golden Gate of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that the universe had a beginning. The universe continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still… — Olivia Howard Dunbar Copy Share Image
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“At night, you'll look up at the stars. It's too small, where I live, for me to show you where my star… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Will once said each galaxy has about a hundred billion stars. He said that ninety-eight percent of what exists around us we… — Kiana Davenport Copy Share Image
“A still more glorious task is before you: the integration of the indefinite equation of the COSMOS by the use of the… — Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I… — Garth Davis Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She took a deep breath, inhaling the night air scented with hay, honeysuckle and the rich waters of the lake, listened to… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Everything passes away—suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
“One of the special forces asked Skippy whether we could see the Sun from there, and Skippy enhanced the image in our… — Craig Alanson Copy Share Image
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We're connected in someway or another. Do not let the world tell you any different, we're all stardust. We were all made… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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