“The stars of the Milky Way galaxy trace a big, flat circle. With a diameter-to-thickness ratio of one thousand to one, our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Something wonderful happens to you and you instantly look back over your life and see it as a series of fortunate events… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
“They stood up and the world was totally different. The wheat was an onyx sea, ever moving in shadow. Above it the… — Pamela Morsi Copy Share Image
“But high-mass stars fortuitously explode, scattering their chemically enriched guts throughout the galaxy. After nine billion years of such enrichment, in an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“There are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. In all… — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
“Oh, how small we were, in the grand scheme of it all. Our planet was but a speck in the midst of… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Miss Murphy in first grade wrote its name in chalk across the board and told us it was roaring down the storm… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“In the year 3,000,002,012 the Andromeda Galaxy may collide with our Milky Way. At first this sounds miserable, like a collision of… — Amy Leach Copy Share Image
A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns /… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May 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.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system.… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
“all hopes there, so close to each other, are pulled into the void every night; when a band of pale twinkles milking… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
