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Cosmology Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Billions and billions.
- I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the…
- We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up…
- I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
- The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an…
- A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of…
More Cosmology Quotes
- I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville
- For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a… — Wernher von Braun
- 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
- Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris
- The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of… — Michio Kaku
- For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim
- From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are… — William James
- Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — Thomas Berry
- I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking
- You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to… — George F. R. Ellis
- The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch. — Alan Guth
- There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart