“Alone in the observatory late one night, I heard the telephone ring persistently. When I answered, a voice, betraying a well-advanced state… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“With considerable security, therefore, we can draw the conclusion that even with a hundred billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
“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
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
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
“Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to… — Kochka Copy Share Image
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Dudley R. Herschbach Copy Share Image
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“Am I the star in this story or you?” Blake wrinkled his nose and chuckled. “Was that a bad analogy? I meant… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
“Don’t call me stupid,” Yaya says, taking a half step toward me. The shine of tears in her eyes is gone: she’s… — Olivia A. Cole Copy Share Image
“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
“We take our bearings from the wrong landmark, wish that when young we had studied the stars - name the flowers for… — Shirley Hazzard 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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