120 Astronomy And Universe Quotes
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Famous Astronomy And Universe Quotes
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen. — John N. Bahcall
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. — Plato
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. — Edwin Powell Hubble
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. — Kurt Vonnegut
We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous. — Vera Rubin
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. — Edmond Halley
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet — Miyamoto Musashi
The universe and the light of the stars come through me. — Rumi
Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe. — Pythagoras
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. — Carl Jung
The universe has been around for a long time. — Naval Ravikant
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. — Richard Baker
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. — Richard H. Baker
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher. — Tycho Brahe
Short Astronomy And Universe Quotes
- I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. — Richard P. Feynman
- The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done. — Ivan Doig
- The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality. — Dalai Lama
- The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human. — Brian Swimme
Understanding The Universe Quotes
To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in. — Fela Kuti
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. — Jerry Garcia
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — Mae Jemison
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. — Stephen Hawking
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. — Brian Cox
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. — Maria Montessori
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father. — James Dobson
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails. — Gustav Holst
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live. — John Lennox
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. — Miuccia Prada
Astrophysics Quotes
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love the smell of the universe in the morning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs. — Paul Davies
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. — Michio Kaku
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. — Hannes Alfven
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. — Paul Davies
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astronomy Quotes
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. — Ptolemy
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. — Carl Sagan
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. — Vera Rubin
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. — Giordano Bruno
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. — Albertus Magnus
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun. — Galileo Galilei
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. — Elizabeth Moon
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke
Expanding Universe Quotes
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. — Albert Einstein
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. — Quentin Crisp
The universe is only as large as our perception of it. When we cultivate our awareness, we are expanding the universe. This expands the scope, not just of the material at our disposal to create from, but of the life we get to live. — Rick Rubin
I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me. — Kris Carr
They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. — Steven Wright
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. — Thomas Huxley
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. — Quentin Crisp
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Walt Whitman
Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it. — Thaddeus Golas
Creation Of The Universe Quotes
Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe. — Elijah Muhammad
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all. — Wernher Von Braun
God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere. — Thea Bowman
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings. — Rob Brezsny
The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners. — Steven J Lawson
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. — John Polkinghorne
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it. — Rumi
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. — Alice Walker
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. — Alain Badiou
Vast Universe Quotes
Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe. — Nachman of Breslov
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. — Albert Einstein
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. — Stanley Kubrick
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us. — Francis Crick
The things that are not computable vastly outnumber the things that are computable, and what is computable depends entirely upon what computers we can make in this physical universe. The computers that we can make must obey our laws of physics. — Naval Ravikant
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. — Paul Bowles
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. — Maria Mitchell
When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident. — Edgar Mitchell
There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe. — Carl Sagan
Infinite Universe Quotes
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions. — Michio Kushi
Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe. — Nikola Tesla
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. — Herbert Spencer
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. — Frederick Salomon Perls
I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there. — Tom DeLonge
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect. — Giordano Bruno
People Writing About Astronomy And Universe
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Plato |
945 | 13426 |
 Edwin Powell Hubble |
22 | 373 |
 Kurt Vonnegut |
1005 | 5935 |
 Vera Rubin |
11 | 496 |
 Miyamoto Musashi |
133 | 5784 |
 Rumi |
1754 | 29170 |
More Astronomy And Universe Quotes
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the system of procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with eyes wide open." — Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan. — Arno Allan Penzias
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way. — Johannes Kepler
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. — Carl Sagan
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? — Carl Sagan
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting. — J. R. R. Tolkien
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. — Martin Rees
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. — Carl Sagan
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. — Michael P. Anderson
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things. — Nicolaus Copernicus
There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history. — John D. Barrow
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. — Woody Allen
The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center. — Francis Bacon
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously — Tony Benn
Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy. — Humphry Davy
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars. — KRS-One
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith. — Jimmy Carter
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God. — George Frederick Pentecost
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space. — Percival Lowell
As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming. — Freeman Dyson
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. — Hermann Bondi
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest. — Charles Lapworth
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