Astronomy Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small…

— Dalai Lama

I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore…

— Christopher Hitchens

Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our…

— Carl Sagan

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

— Johan Rockstrom

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small…

— Carl Sagan

From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in…

— Thomas Berry

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

— Thomas Carlyle

On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes…

— Mary E. Pearson

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.…

— John F. Kennedy

The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but…

— Frederick Lenz

“In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We…

— John F. Kennedy

“Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.”

— Ally Carter

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor…

— Richard Bach