Milky Way Quotes

72 quotes by 64 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. — Unknown Author
For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy. — Bart Bok
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
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
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
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
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I… — Roz Savage
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat… — Mao Zedong
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,… — Henry Van Dyke
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity… — Aron Ralston
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck… — Bertrand Russell
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? — Henry David Thoreau
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way,… — Benjamin Disraeli

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