Astrophysics Quote by Hannes Alfven

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe…

— Hannes Alfven

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the…

— Carl Sagan

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as…

— Walt Whitman

“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”

— Deepak Chopra

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same…

— Carl Sagan

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

I think a myth is created from truth.

— Mark Lanegan

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what…

— Carl Sagan

Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire…

— Sam Harris

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation…

— Joseph Campbell