Astronomy And Universe Quotes

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.