Galaxy Quote by Alan Watts

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind…

— Erich Fromm

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used…

— Horace Walpole

“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of development could…

— Eraldo Banovac

“Our lives are small temporally as well as spatially: if this 14-billion-year cosmic history were scaled to one year, then 100,000 years of human…

— Max Tegmark

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state…

— Pierre Simon de Laplace

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for…

— Robert Kirshner

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness…

— Thomas Berry

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of…

— David Deutsch

“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In…

— Carl Sagan

“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would…

— Liu Cixin

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

— Mason Cooley