Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
We've seen black holes, which is already wonderful. We also expect to see the merger of neutron stars, and that was a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable… — Trevor Beattie Copy Share Image
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The universe is so enormous, and we have no idea what's on the other side of the galaxy. It's a lovely thing… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“There are about one hundred billion galaxies within this visible universe and the average density of material within a galaxy is about… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Out in our neck of the woods-26,000 light-years (2.5 X 10^20 meters) from the galactic center-stars follow orbital paths that take them… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about… — Will Sheff 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
“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
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
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western… — Peter Matthiessen 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
“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
“ Jedha . The Holy City was a sight to behold, a beacon of faith for the entire galaxy, sacred to… well,… — Cavan Scott Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter.… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
![“The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken…” quote by Edgar Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/182/edgar-mitchell-6104_bangs_the-big-bang-has-gone-away-but-as-far-as_132330.png)
![“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?” quote by Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/223/seth-shostak-2047_aliens_o-ne-might-ask-why-in-a-galaxy-of-a-few_2866062.png)
![“[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/marsilio-ficino-20663_audacious_the-imagination-inspires-an-audacious-me_1008045.jpg)
