Astronomy Quote by Maimonides

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

— Albert Pike

“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”

— G.K. Chesterton

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

— Anatole France

“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a…

— Immanuel Kant

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

— Johannes Kepler

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest…

— Edward Young

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

— Leonard Cohen

As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

— Steven Erikson

“The immensity of the universe with the vastness of space and uncountable heavenly bodies is so outside our control and power. What is man…

— Sharon Lathan

“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