Astronomy Quote by James Hamilton-Paterson

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

— Brian Cox

“They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving, maybe I’m going home.”

— Vincent Freeman

“We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”

— Joni Mitchell

I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up…

— George Wald

“We are stardust, we are golden, We are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

— Joni Mitchell

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Our hands have held the life of every atom, and our eyes read the stories, of each soul. Our mouths have spoken words, as…

— Hendrith Smith

“One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.”

— Oliver Morton

“You are literally made of stardust, and whatever becomes of you the particles from which you are made have been around since the dawn…

— Danny Scheinmann

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

“The Supreme Arrogance of Religious Thinking: That a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star…

— Peter Walker