Any Quote by Francis William Aston

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

— Anonymous

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

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

— Jack Williamson

I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be…

— Kip Thorne

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central…

— Ann Druyan

“The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization…

— Michelle Madow

“Our cosmic circumstances influence the way we see reality.”

— Caleb Scharf

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of…

— Jean Vanier

“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation of its…

— Carl Sagan

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of…

— Carl Sagan

“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

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which…

— Anonymous