The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I am nothing but oxygen and hydrogen, a luminous sphere of plasma held together by helium and gravity, And like a balloon… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided… — Lyman Spitzer Copy Share Image
“ There Will Be Stars There will be stars over the place forever; Though the house we loved and the street we… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“All the seeds of Christianity -- of superstition, were sown in my mind and cultivated with great diligence and care. All that… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Helen and I like to think of two people in a conscious love relationship as companion stars. Each person is a unique… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
“I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
I have wings, they enable me to fly. As long as I have them, I can touch the sky. All I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
“It’s all strange to me. I know I live on a fierce and magical planet, which sheds or surrenders rain or even… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The green fractals of the forest and the eons of faint star clusters above—my math’s teacher’s order in the universe—were nothing like… — Anya Allyn Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“the universe is big and old and, as a result, rare events happen all the time. Go out some night into the… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea,… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the windows turned from mud-colour… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The storm has passed." He nodded toward the clearing skies. "The stars have come out." He paused and gazed upward. "I miss… — Elizabeth Boyle Copy Share Image
