In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“She died." I had to prompt him. "Soon after?" "In the early hours of February the nineteenth, 1916." I tried to see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class.… — Jodi Picoult 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
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
“...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“It goes something like this: I am one person among 6.5 billion people on Earth at the moment. That's one person among… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
“Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“By the time the Milky Way collided with Andromeda, the war between them, for all practical purposes, was over.” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“What is this?" Emily asked, looking in the largest Styrofoam container. There was a bunch of dry-looking chopped meat inside. "Barbecue." "This… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I believe, if there is some sort of higher power, the universe is it. Whenever religious people ask me where the universe… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is every day an adventure with its own drive? Or an interlocked link in the chain of our life? Are we, then,… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
“As we men live and act, so do our arteries; so does blood; so do corpuscles. As cells and protoplasm live and… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Broadway lit up just as crazy as ever, and the crowd thick as molasses. Just fling yourself into it like an ant… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Without will there is no concept and no world. Before us, certainly, nothing remains. But what resists this transition into annihilation, our… — Schopenhauer Arthur Copy Share Image
We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
