Cosmology Quotes
89 quotes by 68 authors
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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
— John Banville
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother…
— Wernher von Braun
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly…
— Janet Morris
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The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology…
— Michio Kaku
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves…
— Emile Durkheim
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
— William James
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this…
— Thomas Berry
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I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that…
— Stephen Hawking
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You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the…
— George F. R. Ellis
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
— Alan Guth
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or…
— Paul Lockhart
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison…
— David Bentley Hart
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Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however,…
— Geoffrey Burbidge
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation,…
— John Polkinghorne
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These…
— Kate Wilhelm
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Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion…
— Don Cupitt
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Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.
— Sophocles
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The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Who Wrote These Cosmology Quotes
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