You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“In a trillion or so years, anyone alive in our own galaxy may know nothing of other galaxies. Our observable universe will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon 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
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was… — Gerald Durrell 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
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“There is none other like me. There is none other like her. We are unbelievable, impossible. I fly as high as the… — Rosie Garland Copy Share Image
“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine,’ wrote Theophrastus, who lived during the founding of the Library of Alexandria. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
“Did you know that when a guy comes, he comes 200 million sperm? And you're trying to tell me that your child… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Take any two electrons -- or, in Dr. Bell's and my case, photos-- that originate from a common source, measure and combine… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A year after that, the great red star, its waist now nearly to Jupiter, all at once collapsed in on itself and… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
“The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and foul and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She said, “That was why we attacked Milky Way. Your Throne would have formed a disorganized and uncoordinated mentality. By the time… — John C. Wright 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
The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast… — 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
“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
To relax, I work. I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which… — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
“In an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster), in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way), in an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher… — 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
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear Soon in the galaxy, that milky… — John Milton Paradise Lost Copy Share Image