Aspect Quote by Johannes Kepler

“Instead of an intellectual search, there was suddenly a very deep gut feeling that something was different. It occurred when looking at Earth and…

— Edgar Mitchell

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously…

— Murray Leinster

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of…

— Edgar Mitchell

For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn.…

— Carolyn Porco

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I describe the variety of different kinds of experiences I had, from seeing into the future to being inside the body of a bird…

— Fred Alan Wolf

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction…

— Tim Edensor

“The wholly desacralized cosmos is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit.”1”

— Monica Sjöö

“It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate,”

— Walter Isaacson