Billions Quote by Mark Twain

“This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“We’ve come a long way since Herschel’s experiments with rays that were “unfit for vision,” empowering us to explore the universe for what it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they must stream…

— Pattiann Rogers

“He'd never seen the galaxy like this before, so close, so clear, parallel tracks of stars merging and separating, all of it wheeling as…

— A.W. Baldwin

“Curious how much gas lurks among the stars in galaxies? Radio telescopes do that best. There is no knowledge of the cosmic background, and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in…

— Herman Melville

“That night, though, far out into the North Atlantic, there were no lights to be seen, for there was no shipping. The deep-water lanes…

— Robert McFarlane

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Space was all around them, stretching out like an ocean of silent wind‌—‌ribboned with color and starlight.”

— Austin J. Bailey

“After several moments, the darkness stirred. Beyond its obsidian surface, she could see the glimmer of stars and stellar flares of red fire burning…

— Eva Vanrell

Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke