Astronomy Quote by Joseph Conrad

“Instead, he wrote, quoting Lucretius, there were multiple worlds, where the seeds of things, in their infinite numbers, would certainly combine to form other…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the…

— Rachel Carson

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

— Carl Becker

“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an…

— John Burroughs

“But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it.…

— Charles Darwin

“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

— Carl Sagan

“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in the heat…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“We dangle by a flimsy thread, Our little lives are grains of sand: The Cosmos is a tiny sphere Held in the hollow of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Your suns and worlds are not within my ken, I merely watch the plaguey state of men. The little god of earth remains the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe