Milky Quotes
98 quotes by 90 authors
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages…
— Dante Alighieri
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
— Walter Scott
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We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with…
— Immanuel Kant
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its…
— Seth Shostak
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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted…
— William Butler Yeats
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although…
— Gerald Fischbach
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It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we…
— Emile Borel
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Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
— Rumi
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For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.
— Bart Bok
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Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen…
— Carl Sagan
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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
— Mark Twain
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red…
— William Carlos Williams
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The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything…
— Patricia Hampl
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He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that sort of milky…
— Colin Mochrie
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A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of…
— Carl Sagan
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their…
— Jeremiah Wright
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When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.…
— Joseph Rodman Drake
Who Wrote These Milky Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 98 Milky Quotes, led by these top contributors: