“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Your brain… weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels. contains more connections than there are stars in… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly 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
“It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“If you were a hapless cosmic hitchhiker stranded between the stars of the Milky Way, your body would represent a concentration of… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The number of external galaxies beyond the Milky Way is at least in the thousands of millions and perhaps in the hundreds… — Carl Sagan 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
Now that she's back in the atmosphere With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey She acts like summer and walks… — Train Copy Share Image
“I’ll never understand why some people can’t just let others live their lives, you know,” Danial said. “You don’t have to understand.… — J.H. Trumble 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
Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
We are 'nuclear waste' from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains atoms whose provenance can be traced… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
